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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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