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Submitted to Contest #168
Why is it that horror movies always seem to include some version of skipping records, spiral staircases, or ticking clock faces?The train made a loop counterclockwise around his basement. Tiny treetops, some of their foliage dotted in reds and yellows to signify the start of fall, stand erect throughout the scene; a testament to the countless hours spent in the basement repeating the same tasks. Dot glue, dip in flocking; dot glue, dip in flocking. The water in the falls, suspended as if time didn’t exist at all. Yet, eve...
Submitted to Contest #164
Granny reminds me that where I come from, “Sundays are for visiting with Jesus, not idle boys.” Sometimes Jamie surprises me with a visit to the pretzel shop where I work. We sit in front of the last vestiges of the mall. Once it had been a thriving center, a replacement for the dwindling tobacco business. But the arc of commerce, quick to rise and fall, meant the mall was now a gathering of vacant storefronts and retired folk using it as their all-weather track for walking laps. We perch on a bench outside the parking lo...
Submitted to Contest #162
Eitan rolled the large rounded treat around his mouth before biting in. Magnificent—simply the best meatball he’d ever tasted in his life. This was the eighth meatball he had tried, so delectable and moist. He wasn’t planning to taste them but then he heard another party-goer, “oh they’re truly so wonderful!” “Thank you!” the woman behind the table was all aglow. “And they’re made in a separate kosher kitchen.” “Oh, you’re much more diligent than me! I’m only kosher when my brother comes to town,” winked the older la...
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