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Submitted to Contest #102
" Lorna, it's my life. Not yours. Leave me alone, close the door behind you". I bolted the door shut behind her and reached for the cabinet. Opening the little box, I held one of Eric's pictures into my hands. There was nothing remarkable about his features. Everything about his face was odd. Walking across the room, I got hold of a whiskey bottle and drank straight from it. Hoping it would blur my vision a little. Still nothing. I downed the whole bottle and soon after regretted it. Still there was nothing to blur the fact that Eric w...
Submitted to Contest #94
Clara stood on the balcony and checked her wrist watch once again. She leaned on the railing, tapped her hair into place before reaching for a hand mirror on the chair next to her. She smiled a little as she gazed upon her reflection in the mirror. Her bouncy chocolate brown curly hair was tied loosely into a ponytail. She let a few strands drop on the sides of her face. Looking intensely into the mirror she pouted her perfect thin lips as she tried to look as fierce as the girl that had graced the last cover of vogue Looking at her wris...
Submitted to Contest #91
"Mrs Masha,Mrs Masha, why do you always do this to the kid?.Have you no respect for this place. Let the boy go outside,he has already caused us too much trouble for the day. Look over there everyone is starting to leave." the librarian said. "I told you yesterday not to bring him back again, but here you are", she added. Looking disapprovingly at Peter,she narrowed her eyes. " A little spoilt aren't yaa" Mama's boy, disturbing our peace this early in the morning. You are lucky I am not your mother," she mused. I dragged Peter away as t...
It was the day after Christmas and people were still merry. I passed by crowds of people who flocked the streets near the grocery stores. Most of them seemed to be looking for reasons to do foolish things. Two girls past their teenage years were drinking an expensive whiskey and dancing in the street. An ex- Japanese car drove into the street,bouncing from side to side. One of the girls threw herself onto the oncoming car which made the driver step hard on the brakes. The driver waited until the girl picked herself up and he shook his he...
Submitted to Contest #88
My mother always warned me not to play by the river bank and I never dared to disobey her. On one particular afternoon however she had left me with her nephew Forward, and I found myself acting differently. My mother knew how much me and Forward did not like each other.I told her several times that I did not need a babysitter. Being twelve,I was old enough to take care of myself. I knew how to light a fire and make my own food. What else did I need a babysitter for?.It was not as if i was going to make the house catch fire. Which was not a d...
Submitted to Contest #41
The problem started when I left home that Saturday morning and did not bother to inform anyone to inform anyone about my whereabouts. Living with my brother and his wife was starting to become a bore. I was not sure whether I was the one causing the tension in their household or perhaps they had their own underlying issues and I was just the scapegoat. After all usually I spent my days at the college which was located in the central business district.My brother did not own an automobile so I hitchhiked to and from college everyday. I ensured...
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