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Submitted to Contest #279
The darkness was suffocating, cold, and smelt of decay. It took me a long time to realise where I was, to realise I wasn’t breathing. I lay there for God knows how long, the first hour filled with panic, the second with the realisation that I wasn’t going to die, that I was already dead. Images of my friends and family flashed through my mind, though my memory was shrouded in a fog. The images were hard to fully understand, but they were there all the same. How did I end up here? Were people out there looking for me? I strug...
Submitted to Contest #277
It was the cold of the guns metal against my back that let me know things were about to go from bad to worse—if that was at all possible. The person behind me, holding me at gunpoint, had said something, but I missed it, his words drowned out by the sound of my own beating heart.               “Are you deaf? Get in your car,” the voice growled again.The voice was husky and low and one that I didn’t recognise. I reached out for my cars door handle, my hands shaking. I ...
Submitted to Contest #226
It’s that time of the year again, the time when Keven’s small, but chaotic family gets together for Thanksgiving dinner. He knew he couldn’t skip out on it, even if he wanted to. Without Keven’s influence, God knows how the night would go. It would more than likely end with one of them or all of them, dying.These dinners were a little different than what most would expect, the fact that they always ended in fights and arguments was probably the only thing about it that resembled a normal family gathering.Every year it was the same thing, yet...
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