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Submitted to Contest #303
Lorna could only sigh, who wanted to be a mother of teenagers? These two of hers were hers alone, she had been raising them by herself for years. Their father had been one of the rat department, leaving his family in the lurch. Lorna, Tahlia and the younger one, Shelby, did not care if he ever came near them again.Tahlia was Lorna's dahl, but Shelby was starting to have her moments. Tahlia had led the way for passing her high school and her course at a local college, subsidized by Lorna. Lorna was still slaving at a lower-class job, as a da...
Submitted to Contest #302
"O tempora, O mores!" Pammy could smile these days at the current trends, each to their own, and anything goes. She hummed as the proceeded to muse while stitching gifts for her siblings and pals, whether they wanted them or not. Cool to be kind."Did males ever really change, let alone the little women who were swayed by their charms, so disarming?" Pammy cast her notions back to when she had been a married lay teacher, born to preach in a parochial primary school. There the allied nuns and her co-educators, all female, had a vocation to lea...
Submitted to Contest #301
Imogen the Doubter was really never ready to be so attracted by that unsuitable man! Some hours later, after her encounter with Mr. Calm and Urbane, she was still wasting her thoughts on this lovely, balmy and sunny day. Being the Imogen her close gal force so cherished back in her hometown, she had always blamed herself for her parents' miserable divorce and its aftermath.Imogen had worked hard, trying to let her besties win her over to their Lord. Underneath her friendly and hospitable surface, she was a mess of insecurities. In some ways,...
Submitted to Contest #300
Kirrily, with more than a few silver threads amid her grey, hopped in her wheels, thinking how her other car was a broom. When she was so young, she and her sister had loved viewing the TV sitcom, "Bewitched'. It was fascinating and funny, a tale of Endora's daughter, conveying the old mother/daughter thing. Kirrily sat in the traffic jam, wondering why she was not magic, would have made driving, housework and cooking so much easier and faster.Kirrily' s tapestry of life was also about a tale of two women. Her late ex-husband had been an It...
Submitted to Contest #299
"Made it, safe on first!" Blaine had arrived home to his share house in the taxi he had hastily summoned. He glanced at his reflection in the mirror on his dresser. He was still flushed, bit bleary-eyed, plump, unassuming. His co-students in his final year of college had invited him to a party house to celebrate the end of first semester. The music had been throbbing, the wine and beers were flowing freely. Blaine had not eaten any dinner before he went, ran short of time again. Was that really an excuse? As his student pals had kept filling...
Submitted to Contest #298
"Motherhood is a blessing!' This is what Chad's mother had told Cleo when she was informed about the impending arrival of twins for the young, hopeful couple they had been. These days, her mother-in-law was still worse than her own mother, who always opened each home visit with, "Are you pregnant again?" Her mother-in-law from hell and Chad kept telling Cleo to 'get over it', she would soon recover from her darker days and nights by giving Chad more adorable babies. Cleo decided she was already exhausted enough. When their grandparents were ...
Submitted to Contest #297
Once upon a future, a latter day archeologist unearthed a fragment of ancient writing. This was a puzzle of the past. The boffins studied the language in their think tank. The epistle was deciphered by eager scholars of antique heritage linguistics, but some of the actual meanings of the bard's phrases might very well be misinterpreted. Still, the mere humans tried to do their best, competing to achieve universal and evolutionary accolades for uncovering their ancestors' strange habits. One eminent student of human endeavours from an undated...
Submitted to Contest #296
"Nothing lasts forever...." Davey muttered to himself, as his wife woke him from his noon codger kip. He was listening to the radio commentary about his useless football team. So far this season, his beloved boys had no sense of achieving any goals. Today, of all days, his team needed goals, Dave was having a rest easy day off in lieu of some overtime he had accomplished. "Dave! Get here right now!" His wife was menopausal, but that was now a politically incorrect misogynist thought. Dave heeded this command, always peaceful, while zipping ...
Submitted to Contest #295
When Winnie walked home, she noticed a gleam hidden by some leaves. Winnie picked up a slightly dirty everyday ring. Gazing at it, she wondered, "Should I try it on? No, wait till I get home." "Home!" she called to her Mum, ironing at the kitchen table, ironing is easier that way." Snacks and drinks in the fridge. Good day?""Only ordinary," Winnie replied, taking her cake for afternoon tea."Yum, thanks, Mum." Her Mum was on her phone, chatting to her friend, while still ironing. She did not even answer. By four o'clock, Winnie was staring at...
Submitted to Contest #294
That summer was their first love. Upon reflection, Deidre Barnett considered now that it had been true love. That first glance at a summer party had her love bound.Deidre, currently a grey-haired senior matron, was a resident as a retirement village home unit. She paused her reading of her book. She liked sitting by herself, a widow now, there as her family of three adults children lived for away. They were all so busy with their daily lives and their own growing families. Deidre was a great reader, a reticent introvert, who met most of her ...
Submitted to Contest #293
"Seize the day. I'll motivate myself to today! In positive ways!" Lenny woke up to anticipating a fun day ahead. Here it was, a day that had dawned bright and sunny. It was supposed to be a normal super duper Saturday in Smallton. It was a very small suburb in the sprawling metropolis that was east of somewhere, on a planet riding around its trip through the universe.Lenny greeted his standard weekend o'clock, his days off from the humdrum routines of his weekly existence. His morning passed by uneventfully, until his girlfriend came over t...
Submitted to Contest #292
It was one of those golden days in late summer, as the seasons were turning. Ava had been tidying her cupboards, Spring cleaning before Autumn. Her once golden hair was grey now, aging spots cluttered her hands. She had fancied writing a letter, as in those golden days, instead of the modern digital world of emailing and texting. As her friends were either dead, vision impaired or half gaga, she caught her breath, and composed a letter to posterity. Or, indeed, an epistle to the generations of youth."Here is a message from one the world's ol...
Submitted to Contest #291
Once upon a lifetime, it was noon in a leafy suburban world. Malachi, all seventeen years old of him, stood at his front door, waving cheerily, a fake smile plastered on his gleaming face."Yes, Mum. Bye Mum. Have fun at the wedding, hey!" Malachi was listenting intently, or was he pretending?"Yes, Mum. Bye, Mum. Yes, Mum, I'll do my essay on Romeo and Juliet. Bloody English teachers, Hey!"Malachi then absorbed yet more life coaching from his mother. She was all dressed in wedding finery, off to celebrate her niece's nuptials at a seaside des...
Submitted to Contest #290
"Give love, give happiness....' he was murmuring as his lips kissed hers, for that magical first kiss, igniting some long cherished fantasies. Then Marla awoke, startled. She had only been dreaming again. The hot tongue kissing was from her dog, wanting breakfast and a walk. "Maybe it is better like this!" she told herself, trying not to look at the date.It was that time of the year. Soon Marla was walking her very naughty puppy, a nine month old Rottweiler named Lady. She and her fur baby were supposed to be strolling through a mild midday ...
Submitted to Contest #289
The world kept turning, the sun rose anyway. A new dawn. Who were the survivors? No humans left in the immutable cycles of Mother Earth. The sparse remaining fragments of the sophisticated technological ages of the humanoids had all been drowned and demolished.Sadly, only one form of life made it through. Yes, a new dawn of a new day. As the now cooling red orange sun appeared, there were only lowly fungi. Of all the many varied forms of life's web, only fungi. Naturally, the sun arose anyway to lighten fungi, lichens, moulds, ragworts, alga...
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