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Submitted to Contest #295
The neighbors’ dogs won’t quiet, so I press the volume button again and again until the walls pulse with the shimmer of lightsabers and a galaxy far, far away. Vvrrrmmm!Krsshh!Whumm-whumm!There. That should drown them out for a while. Or, you know, at least make me forget they’re there. I absentmindedly stick a foot in my Minion shaped houseshoes, tapping the other foot around it to find the left one. Where did it end up? My body glides to the floor like honey off a spoon, and I start feeling for my shoe. Can’t be anywhere but under the couc...
Submitted to Contest #237
Life has been meek here on Asteroid 325. Ever since my boy left, I’ve been worrying about him non-stop. Well, I’ve been worrying about my future and my chance of survival, more than anything. I have needs, you know? One cannot spend the whole day being pretty and smelling amazing without needing some pampering here and there. At first, the lack of his presence was not a reason for concern. After all, he did leave the screen for me to use at night. Those drafts are real killers. One quick breeze and BAM! Your petals wither, your thorns fall o...
My wife is my everything. She has a superpower that allows us to have somewhat of a normal life. You see -ha,- when I was just twelve years old I lost my vision. It wasn’t all at once. Nope. It was a slow descent into blindness. First went my left eye, and then slowly, inexorably, my right eye followed. I knew it was going to happen, but you’re never ready to go blind. Truth is, even if every doctor, eye specialist, and ophthalmologist I have ever seen (see what I did there?) told me that I would go blind, in the back of my heart I always ho...
Submitted to Contest #58
*Trigger warning: domestic violence* Aya was a firm believer in Murphy’s law: anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. She was known among her friends as the ‘unlucky one.’ When she was only 12, Aya was struck by lighting, and that's when the series of unlucky events started. Her family had gone camping for the weekend, and got caught by a surprise thunderstorm in the middle of a hike. They had taken all the precautions, but somehow the little girl still managed to get struck. She couldn’t remember much about the accident other than a bli...
Submitted to Contest #57
“My name is Marshall and I am an alcoholic!” I announce to a room full of strangers. “Hi Marshall!”“I recognise that my story might be different, or maybe not, who knows. I sure as hell have never met anyone else in my position.”My intro seems to have caught a few people’s interest, while others are still absentmindedly gnawing at their stale donuts. A pale looking man whose right foot is tapping at the speed of light, probably nervous for lack of substances, appears to recognise me. Something about his grin says he knows who I am, but ...
I died on December 7th, 2025. At least, that is what the tombstone bearing my name says. The details about how I travelled to the future are unknown. Like any other Saturday of 2020, I finished my laundry, I cleaned the rats’ cage, and then read a book on the couch for an hour or so. Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing that would make me believe anything of this magnitude was about to happen. When I went to bed, I closed all the shutters and checked that the alarm was on. If there’s one thing I know is that I don’t want any intruders. ...
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