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Submitted to Contest #294
There’s magic in these old strings. In the precise twitching of the wrinkled hands guiding the marionette. The sea-foam green tiles of the subway station are its stage, and the passing scuffle of shoes its only audience, however fleeting. Sitting on an old weathered bench, its once emerald paint dulled by the onslaught of time, sat the marionette’s puppeteer. He, too, had been dulled by time; deep were the wrinkles in his forehead, and heavy was the weight of age which bowed his back. However, his brown eyes remained fixed on his puppe...
Submitted to Contest #179
Alice’s breath fogged the windows of the bus, further obscuring her view of the unremarkable countryside, its features silhouetted by the darkness of early morning. Beyond the glass, she could just make out the blurred shapes of forgotten farmland against the backdrop of rolling hills far in the distance. The lopsided farmhouses and single room homes now just empty carcasses – mementos of those whose dreams, realized or otherwise, had come and gone. The desolate landscape was a stark contrast to the oppressive skyscrapers of the city. Just...
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