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Submitted to Contest #298
Marvin’s wife died several months ago, a couple days before his birthday. The exact number, he wasn’t sure. Time had lost its shape. The days bled into one another, like a dish of watercolor left out in the rain. From the moment she fell ill, his life became a smear of boiled linens and bitter herbs. Her body, once strong and sinewy, withered until she resembled a corpse. He heard her coughing fits that rattled her thin frame from across the house whenever he was late to administer her medication. When the fever claimed her, the silence that...
Submitted to Contest #197
They rise at sunset. Kicking and clawing through the dirt with cracked grey nails and broken teeth; stumbling over silent gravestones with the grace of an alcoholic. Here, the earth is barren. Flowers refuse to sprout for fear of withering; succumbing to the rampant plague of death stretching acres of land. Among them are the nocturnal inhabitants. Owls, vultures, crows, opossums, and the Undead. Opportunistic feeders lunging at the first sign of life outside their bleak forms. When they aren’t feasting on the rotting carcass of an unfortuna...
Submitted to Contest #84
The world is grey. Odd to say, trust me I know. But the sky is completely colorless; the sun tucked beneath a lingering blanket of smog. Sometimes I imagined God poking a straw through our world and sucking all the blue from the atmosphere. A cold drink, a welcome respite from this suffocating warmth. But then I see the factories with their black belch. Our lungs become choked with thick smoke, tongues covered with ash. And I know this isn’t some work from God, but rather centuries of neglect and ignorance. They give us masks to ward off ...
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