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Submitted to Contest #284
Are We Ever Truly Alone? “If Henry was here this walk would be shoveled by now.” She stared out the kitchen window at a sparkling Christmas Eve. It was the kind of snow that reflected all the neighborhood Christmas lights in so many colors. She had spent most of the day gazing at the snow gently drifting down in deadly beauty. “If Henry was here this ham would have been out of the oven hours ago.” She muttered and pulled open the oven door. Black smoke b...
Submitted to Contest #269
Colleen slipped on a wet rock. She grabbed a tree root for stability. She marked her path off the top of the limestone cliff with care. She loved going to the abandoned quarry after a rain. All those lovely gray fossils were easy to see against the gray matrix they eroded from. She reached a slope of rocks and slid down to a small ledge. She stopped abrup...
Submitted to Contest #268
The first time I met Frankie Farmington I was driving to a new construction job with my buddy Bill. You see Bill and Frankie grew up together. They were always cooking up some money making venture. “You’re gonna love this guy,” said Bill, “he’s been trading up since we were in fourth grade.” Bill looked out the window toward his old stomping grounds. He turned...
Submitted to Contest #266
Carol arrived towing a small trailer full of cuttings, rhizomes, and bulbs, along with all the tools of the garden. The rest of her belongings consisted of clothes, books, and a laptop, neatly fitted in her car.She reasoned her transfer, a downgrade, was actually a good thing. She could pursue her writing with minimum interruption, she thought. A hundred miles from her friends would exclude the time wasting drop-ins insisting, “You just have to come with us, and we’ll have so much fun.” And it was fun, but enough was enough, so she...
Submitted to Contest #259
The road was spacious, and busy, and forking gradually away from the interstate toward the neighboring hills. Max dug diligently under both sides of the front seat, while Kathy struggled to keep up to speed limit each time Max bumped her leg. A truck honked and veered around them. Max bumped her leg again. “Forget the map. I'll look it up again for...
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