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Submitted to Contest #201
I am roused from my 10 a.m. slumber by the sound of a phone notification going off. Fuzzy dreams of black wavy hair and crinkled-eye smiles still linger in my head as I reach for my phone on my shelf. My initial thought is not that it could be you because I haven't heard from you in days. Although, who else could it be? My only friend is someone I've known since fifth grade, who is now 25 years old and married. She only reaches out to me once every two months through random Instagram messages from her favorite cat lover account to let me kno...
Submitted to Contest #174
We used to boast about being able to stay friends longer than any of the others. When old acquaintances would ask, "Are you still friends with Lily?" knowing of our inseparable friendship throughout the years, I’d proudly reply, “Yeah, I just saw her this weekend.” Through grammar school, middle school, high school, and college: our ties never cut. We beat them all. We defied the odds. Even when my mother told me our friendship would crumble because people don’t stay the same and you were going to be another clone of her once-best friend Mar...
Submitted to Contest #130
“Bringer of Death,” they call me. Wrapped in a cape of black that drags through the mud, darkness shadowing my sullen eyes and grim face. I wield a long scythe that measures time and by night I silence those weary souls and tie the loose ends of eternal judgment. Or at least that’s what I hear. My back aches once again from my unmoved position on my favorite rock. Every night, I ascend this cliff that just overlooks the ocean and crane my head upward to behold the greatest light I've ever seen. The moon sits in a warm glow, hung pr...
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