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Submitted to Contest #324
Gulf of Mexico, 1896The Ada Mae rocked in the black chop thirty miles off Galveston, her lanterns swinging like hanged men, smearing golden rays across the gulf. The storm that had taken the Paloma had burned out three days prior, but the gulf still heaved with its ghost. Oil slicks shimmered across the waves. Driftwood clunked against the hull. Williams sat rigid on the bench, encased in heavy canvas, lead boots already bolted to the platform. His fingers, already numb from the salt air, curled and uncurled as the crew worked around him. Th...
Submitted to Contest #307
PrologueBefore the DoorwayWest Virginia, 1952Dr. Elias stood at the edge of the operating theater, arms folded, eyes fixed on the woman at the table. Walter Freeman didn’t work like a surgeon. He worked like an artist. Like a man so practiced at killing something inside a person that it no longer felt like violence.The pick slid in clean, just above the eye and beneath the ridgeline of the brow. Freeman tilted the handle with a casual grace and for a fraction of a second, Elias swore he heard a whisper… maybe. A rustling like dry leaves twis...
Submitted to Contest #294
September 8, 1986Elsa,It’s just me now. Just me and the waves. I don’t know why I’m writing this. Maybe I just want to believe you can still hear me.The boat is quiet without you. I keep thinking I’ll hear your footsteps in the cabin, that soft little shuffle you made when you didn’t want to wake me. But I know better. You’re not here, and I did that.I miss you. God, I miss you.You never should’ve stayed with me, Elsa. You should’ve let me rot the moment you saw what I was becoming. But you, you never ran. Not when the hunger started, not wh...
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