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Submitted to Contest #314
The unremarkable white cotton tennis sock had lain on the edge of the honey wood back deck for two weeks and two days. Paige knew because she had been counting and noting the faint ring of dirt growing around it. Shaking her head, she shut the back flyscreen with a snap then closed the glass slider against the suffocating heat trying to claw its way inside. Through barred vents, air conditioning swirled into the kitchen but sticky tendrils of heat still lingered. She took a cold can of sparkling water from the fridge, flicked it open and swa...
Submitted to Contest #309
I swallowed a too hot mouthful of coffee and winced as it burned a path to my already churning stomach. Rehearsed answers rolled through my mind like a teleprompter. This time, I would not blunder my way through the interview and limp away to nurse my empty heart. Returning to my deathly quiet apartment again tonight without purpose and a plan, sent a lump of concrete to my core. On the parched road ahead, a leaf swirling and skittering dangerously between cars snagged my gaze. I hunched over the steering wheel, squinted through the streaky ...
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