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Submitted to Contest #293
My eyes popped open like a blinking ventriloquist doll when my head jolted upright. The residual pain in my neck was a reminder of the time I dived headfirst into a sandbank at some remote beach with a foreign language I never mastered. I had forgotten until now, the three cracked vertebrae and neck brace which only served to highlight my recklessness. Passengers all around pushed up on atrophied legs to stretch their accordion bodies. As they reached for luggage on racks above their head, a chorus of groans followed. Queued behind eac...
Submitted to Contest #292
NEVER IN A BLUE MOON As each wave approached and receded, I sunk deeper, twisting my feet back and forth. A pippy lodged between my toes, the smooth bifold shell extracted then thrown back into the ocean as seagulls ran, taking flight on the salt laden air. Behind me, spinifex dunes extended as far as the eye could see. Humped mounds, popping with pink flowers, a refuge for pigface, terns and crabs and the ghosts of make believe games created by salt skinned children running carefree on the wind. Twenty years later, I’m no longer t...
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