Katherine Nikolau

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“The Word” by Katherine Nikolau

Submitted to Contest #46

Maury clinked his glass with the mirror, mumbling something unintelligible. The reflection behind the glass seemed to taunt him. Look, it said. Look who you’ve become.  As his vision blurred together, he set down his bottle of scotch and concentrated very hard on not vomiting or succumbing to the pounding darkness behind his eyes. It was a more challenging task than writing his latest novel had been. This is what it had come to. He, a man who had spent a lifetime fantasizing about being the next Ernest Hemingway and writing the Great A...

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Just a young and semi-pretentious writer trying to figure things out.