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Submitted to Contest #310
It was another Tuesday, another blank page staring back at Elias Thorne. His apartment, a monument to unpaid bills and empty coffee cups, felt colder than usual, despite the St. Louis summer trying its best. Elias, a self-proclaimed literary genius with precisely three rejection letters to his name and a mountain of student debt, was wrestling with his latest masterpiece, "The Obsidian Heart." Or, more accurately, "The Obsidian Heart" was wrestling him, pinning him under a suffocating blanket of writer's block. The stifling humidity of late ...
Submitted to Contest #309
Leo was a creature of habit. Every Saturday, rain or shine, he'd pack a thermos of lukewarm tea, a slightly squashed peanut butter sandwich, and his worn leather-bound copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas before heading to the old oak tree at the edge of Miller's Creek. It was his sanctuary, a place where the world's ceaseless hum faded into the gentle murmur of water and rustling leaves. He knew the creek's every curve, the rustle of each type of leaf, and the exact spot where the sunlight dappled just so through the canopy. This ...
The scent of old paper and dust was Amelia's truest comfort. Her small bookstore, "The Boundless Page," was less a business and more a shrine to the lives she hadn't lived. Every spine held a different Amelia—the intrepid explorer who scaled perilous peaks, the celebrated artist whose canvases sang with vibrant hues, the fearless revolutionary who rallied nations to justice. But the Amelia she yearned for most, the one who haunted her quietest moments, was the Amelia who had a sister.She was an only child, a fact that had always felt less li...
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