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The flat song of crickets squeezed through the walls. Their chirps were quiet, muffled, but they weren't quite silent either. The hall hung in a state of inbetween, dustmotes frozen in chilled air, the window at the end blocked by deep green leaves, turned black and silver with the night. Olivia lay her feet carefully so as not to make a sound and wake the students sleeping, still as death, just behind a door. “Jared’s probably at that party anyways,” Alyssa said. “We’ll find him there.” “I have a feeling–” “I spend all my time in the l...
Submitted to Contest #205
On the eve of her eleventh birthday, Fox Trep gave her family dog to the local kennel. Her father had never loved anyone more than he cherished that dog. He petted it every night on the couch. He walked it three times a day. He even gave it more fresh meat than he gave his own family.  He spent so much money on that dog. And Fox gave it away. She snuck out past midnight and ran down the street. She remembered the dog squirming against her chest. At the shelter she claimed that her family was running out of money. Lie. They took Ku...
Submitted to Contest #204
Holed in a barn ten miles off town, the largest underground fighting ring in the west claimed its victims night after grueling night. If your horse was stolen, your farm burned, your gun turned against you in threat, you might find yourself drawn into the lull of the ring, might find yourself ensnared by the money. You might find yourself crouched on thin sand, over bloodstains, yours, or not. Rue wasn’t like them. She hadn’t wandered into the ring one lonesome night. She hadn’t been threatened by a rogue group of bandits. She’d never owned ...
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