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Submitted to Contest #300
Lyle drove slowly through the residential areas of St. Louis. He still couldn’t believe he was here. In St. Louis. In 1922, with a beautiful woman, one he didn’t know. He risked a sidelong glance, she smiled. “I’m Ellen, Bobby’’s wife’s cousin. You are?”“I am Lyle."“We’ve known Porter Jones for a long time, Robert said he recommended you. Turn, here!” she pointed and waved excitedly at the rear bumper of the car Robert was driving. Lyle's face turned red and not just from embarrassment, he forgot that there was no power steering in 1922. He ...
Submitted to Contest #299
Troy slid into his seat in the middle of the second row, his chair tipped sideways, nearly falling over, but settling on all four legs as the tardy bell faded away. Mrs. B raised one eyebrow at him and started roll call.“Peter Emory”“Here”“Angeline Emory”“Here”“Eric Getty”“Here.”Ripples of stifled giggles went through the classroom. Mrs. B looked up from her ledger, the giggles and grins were coming from the area behind Troy. “Troy”“Here.”“We know you are here, what we don’t know is why everyone behind you is laughing.”“I wouldn’t know, ma’...
Submitted to Contest #298
Lyle paced in the FBI agent’s office, an old fashioned leather duffel bag sat on the floor by the chair. It contained the few things he was taking into his new life. He had just testified against his boss for immunity in an accounting scheme. He still couldn’t figure out how his fingerprints got on ledgers he had never even seen. “Are you ready?” Agent Burrows walked into the room and smiled at Lyle. “Mr Corrupt has left the building. I can get you to the train station without him seeing you.” “The train station? I'm going on a train.” “Yo...
Submitted to Contest #296
George walked through the front door of the restored, three story mansion. He looked around in satisfaction, the entryway was open and airy, finished with deep red oak, not just the floors, the walls and the staircase as well. He’d spent over a million dollars refurbishing and modernizing Fiona’s great-grandfather's masterpiece. He hung his knee length overcoat in the closet and slipped his shoes off and slid them to the side. The house was quiet. He frowned, Fiona wasn’t home. George growled under his breath, he had told her that she sh...
Submitted to Contest #294
Dear Sarah, Good morning, how are you? You are off to your first year of college. I know you’re excited and maybe a little bit scared, but you’ll do fine. God will not let you down. He will be with you all the days of your life. I’m mailing this the day before you leave so you will have a welcome to college letter waiting for you. Welcome to college. The most fun and possibly the most important time of your life. I looked at the class schedule you left at your mom’s. Looks like you are going to be very...
Submitted to Contest #293
Mai walked up the aisle and took the window seat in the third row. She placed the wooden briefcase she was carrying on the floor and placed her feet evenly spaced on top of it. She sat with her hands folded in her lap, her line of sight just above the edge of the window. “Dad, when do we get to Grandma's?” “This airplane will get us from NYC to LA in about 3 hours.”“Is this really the fastest airplane in the world?”“It might be. Do you even care about seeing Grandma or do you want to just ride on the plane?”“Of cours...
Submitted to Contest #292
“Hey I found this bag with mine” DH5 walked into the main room of J's newly claimed apartment. “I was looking for that.” J grabbed the rolled up parchment out of the bag. “What is that?”“I am not sure. I picked it up on one of my early merchant runs and was told to keep it safe.”“You've never opened it?’ “No. I was told not to until the right time.”“The right time, when is that?”“I don't know. The elder who gave it to me said I would know.” “You will just know, how? Just let me open it, please, I can ge...
Submitted to Contest #291
C4 walked into the grotto while releasing zisself from the tether, ze looked around for J, there was a lot of stuff piled over against the side of the fairly large room. Ze started unfastening bags and adding them to the rest. Voices filtered up from a corridor in the back J came into view.“Hey C4, glad you made it, has S left yet? “Not sure S, O and L are making sure everyone else gets out first, It shouldn't be long, the back wall of the pasture was about to be breached, and the roof was crashing in as well. How did you...
Submitted to Contest #290
Mary held Joe’s hand and watched him sleep, the heart monitor beeping a comforting rhythm. She thought over their life together, they met on Sunday afternoon at the wedding of Sara and Moses. At the reception dinner, Joe had dropped his plate right in front of her and spattered sauce all over her new shoes. They sat down together just to get out of people’s way. He had lifted her foot gently onto his knee and carefully cleaned her shoe with his napkin. They had talked for hours, about nothing and everything. &nbs...
Risa slowly exited the small book shop, turned and carefully locked the door before methodically walking down the three steps to the sidewalk. The sun was bright overhead but to Risa everything was grey. She felt heavy, much heavier than the 187 pounds she carried on her five foot seven inch frame. She struggled to turn toward the track or the gym, but was at her house before she realized it. Her house was a restored five bedroom Victorian situated on two acres six miles south of town. Risa parked her car next to the garage...
Submitted to Contest #289
The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here. Suddenly very bright lights, I am on a cold hard surface.“What can you tell me about yourself?” the man bending over me asked. He is dressed in dark green scrubs and looks to be around retirement ageI am unable to move my arms. . . . or legs. . .or neck. Ahhhh, Oh now I am floating. Is that me lying there on that steel table getting a Y cut into my chest?“What do you have for me Doc?” a short, stocky but not fat man about 50, wearing a nice but not too expensive sui...
Submitted to Contest #288
Patrice slowly came to consciousness with a cold rain on her face and warmth at her back. She slowly sat up and looked around in the dim light, her head pounding and she shivered. The warmth moved and her eyes partially focused on a large canine face with green eyes. It nudged her and she got up to follow it nearly tripping over a backpack, she picked it up, and recognized it as her pack she used for camping. She staggered as she swung the pack to her back. Lightning struck a tree about 6 feet from her, she could feel the charge of el...
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