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Submitted to Contest #169
This story contains sensitive themes including: mental health, grief, death, and blood. At Dawn There Are Poppies On the last night of August, when the hazy summer heat blurred toward an autumn chill, Emily found a single poppy growing in the woods behind the house. A spot of sunset in the dark of the forest floor, the red-orange blossom shone like blood among the ragged brown pine needles. Emily dropped the plastic container she had been carrying so quickly that the tender, late-summer blackberries burst like fresh bruises on t...
Submitted to Contest #122
Warning: This story contains violence and gore. I had prepared for the apocalypse. I hadn’t prepared for the apocalypse to arrive on Christmas Eve. Everything seems to accelerate around the holidays, you know? Including, apparently, the destruction of the world as we know it.We all knew it was coming. We had seen it coming for months. Years, really. All those dystopian novels, all those monster comic books, and movies and TV shows, and—really? We knew. But the knowledge of something is different than the seeing of something. The ab...
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