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Submitted to Contest #228
The watery potato soup echoed with each drop that landed in the chipped porcelain bowl, a somber counterpoint to the heavy silence that blanketed the room. The dim light from the bedside lamp cast elongated shadows on the walls, mirroring the skeletal figure lying motionless in the bed. This was our last meal together, a final act of love before the curtain fell on the stage of our shared life. My father, once a titan of strength and resilience, now lay before me a mere shadow of the man who had built our world brick by brick. His hands, onc...
Submitted to Contest #227
A tremor, like a hummingbird's wings brushing against a sleeping rose, rippled through Anya's slumbering form. Memories, fragmented and hazy like mist clinging to a mountaintop, drifted through her consciousness: vibrant landscapes woven from moonlight, the chilling laughter of nightmares echoing through desolate spaces, and a desperate struggle against an encroaching darkness that threatened to consume them all. Then, a jolt. It wasn't a simple awakening nor a gentle nudging from slumber. It was a cosmic earthquake, a sudden eruption of raw...
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