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Submitted to Contest #301
The girl in the mirror is yourself, so you take her apart. The reflection is flawless—you made sure of that, as countless others have before you. Primer, concealer, contour, and highlight, all perfectly blended across your skin like promises. Your eyeshadow sits in a gradient that makes your eyes look deeper, more alluring. Your lips are lined precisely, filled with a shade that complements your skin tone exactly as promised by beauty gurus whose influence knows no borders. But there's something… off about your left eyebrow. There is a sligh...
I never thought I would become friends with a colony of penguins. The first one I met was named Marlene, after a bird her grandfather used to tell stories about while drunk on seawater. Her name felt right for her. Slippery name. Like something that would survive the depths by clinging to shipwrecks and drinking the salt off drowned sailors' eyelids. She wasn't at all the type I'd normally speak to—with her waddling gait that seemed as fluid on land as it must be underwater and eyes that never seemed to blink at the same time, glossy black o...
Submitted to Contest #296
Ruby stood motionless on the ridge, her optical sensors scanning the valley below where the Eastern Coalition's refugee transport prepared for launch. Her titanium frame absorbed the morning light as calculations streamed through her neural pathways. The refugees moved with urgent purpose, unaware of the perfect killing machine observing their final hope of escape. Ruby's targeting systems locked onto the vessel's weak points, counting down to the moment when she would fulfill her programming.As data streamed through her neural network, Ruby...
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