Lucy Benson

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“UVampire ” by Lucy Benson

Submitted to Contest #274

“Jackson!” Ray’s voice penetrated the haze that had been clouding my brain.  It was a slow day at Ray’s Rays, the sunbed salon where I was sleeping my gap year away, trying to save up enough money for college. Most people spend their gap year abroad, travelling to exotic places. I was spending my gap year making people look like they had been abroad, travelling to exotic places. Go figure. “Jackson!” Ray called again. “You alright?” I called back. “We’ve got a situation,” Ray said, coming out of his office. “Lindsay is sick, and I have ...

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“A Currency of Time” by Lucy Benson

***Warning: this story contains themes of child killing that may upset the reader*** Don’t tell anyone. My mother’s voice rang the mantra once more through my mind as I sat in the interrogation room and tried to look like I was guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was alone in the room, left by the interrogator to stew in my own head, but I knew they were watching. I refused to give them the satisfaction of seeing me squirm. I wasn’t sure how long I had been in the small, windowless room. I was certa...

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