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Submitted to Contest #89
She began by aiming at the top. Primed with determination, armed with a lifetime's expertise, plus a potential employers list compiled from a well known Five Stars Hotel, Peggy set out to offer her executive services to the upper echelons of South Africa’s Hospitality industries. During the first hours she didn’t even get to give her name to a hat-check girl. Whenever she called, as soon as she mentioned employment she was dismissed with a curt headshake at the door. In the next half dozen places, reinforcing her persistence she at least got...
'Goodbye', she said hastily and hurried out into the passage. As she swiftly ran down the stairs she heard him sobbing. A short pause and then peals of uncontrolled wailing. Suddenly she felt sad as she pictured Amos alone all day, everyday, with no one to talk to. By the time she reached the bottom of the hill she turned back and could still see their house in the distance. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and took one last look at Honey road. I must keep still, she thought.’ Everything will work out just fine, she convinced herself as...
Submitted to Contest #79
Grace, clambered down from the bus and watched it slither away like a snake on fire: flashing red, whining. Fifty yards up Valley Road, it veered out of sight around a hairpin curve, belched a plume of exhaust and was gone. She gazed across the street at the entrance of Beverly Grove. Squat stone pillars with broken tops marked the neighbourhoods boarders, with a scatter of houses set in no particular order on irregular one acre plots. There was the shrill of barking dogs, and a revving motorbike. Grace squinted through the glare, searching ...
Submitted to Contest #77
From where she stood at the window, Susan could see how the flakes of Snow slowly but gradually fell and covered the superb landscape of the Adventure Farm, with it’s gentle hills and wide sweeps of green . For the past two years Susan haven’t had the time to visit her grandparents. The pain of losing Howard became so unbearable and she thought one visit to the Adventure Farm would help clear her mind and find closure. Now, deep in thoughts, she stared through the window expecting to frame Howard’s features. But they didn’t materialize. Try ...
Submitted to Contest #76
“ When you arrived in the office this morning and found the safe door open, what was the first thing you did?”“ I don’t have access to the safe keys or keys to any room for that matter.”“But then did you notice that the safe door was open?”“Was I the only person arriving early this morning?”“No, you may not be the first to arrive but what did you do?”“ I did what I’m required to do each day in the office.”“So, you did not take notice of the open safe?”“Is there a problem when people arrive early to work Matt? Are you not the one responsible ...
Submitted to Contest #75
Trigger warning: abuse When Janet woke from what seemed like a dreamless deep sleep, her eyes caught the blinding light through the window. Struggling to open her eyes she pulled herself upright, clutching feebly at the blanket for support as she yawed. She had no idea where she was or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. A man was sitting beside her. Blinking her eyes to clear her view, she tried to search through her mind who the stranger could be but nothing came to mind. “Where am I? What’s the matter with me?” Janet was...
Submitted to Contest #72
It was the last Friday of November when Lucy was released from prison after her ten years murder sentence. The police officers dropped her off in the middle of nowhere a few kilometers from the Prison. 'Madam, we have to drop you off here. If you are lucky, someone will give you a lift home.’ 'But Sir, you can’t leave me alone, please rather take me back to the Prison and I’ll get a lift from there.’ The other Officer flung the door open and ordered Lucy to step out. Puzzled, she stood by the side of the road and watched as the pol...
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