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Submitted to Contest #300
To Kill a PlaceAdam stopped in the street, staring at the house with mixed emotions. He couldn’t recall how many times he had decided to come here only to fail. A hundred? More? He didn’t know, but he was certain this would be the last time, no matter what the outcome. Perhaps the reason for his past failures was what his friend had told him earlier that day: "You go in with safety nets, like a child riding a bike with training wheels, just in case you fall."So, the obvious solution, in his mind, was to strip himself of all safeguards before...
Submitted to Contest #294
I stood at the edge of the square, the air heavy with a blend of smoke, metal remnants, and a faint trace of decay. I counted the bags; a ritual I performed every day. In the far corner reserved for men, there were 23. In the women’s section, 48. As for the small children’s bags, they were piled together, fused into one another. My best guess was 67.Counting had been easier when we still had shrouds, before they ran out long ago.The funny thing was, I had thought the numbers would decrease over time after the enemy activated the Erasure Weap...
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