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The glittering of the shimmery chandelier on the champagne glasses in everyone's hand, the beautiful backless dresses, the flawless makeup, the perfectly pressed three-piece suits, they all add to the glitz and glamour of the prestigious evening. Too bad it's all going down the drain. The human mind is a curious one and one tiny snippet of an even remotely interesting fact is enough to get a person to forget about privacy altogether – and human decency might I add – just to satisfy the hunger of their curiosity. Thus explains tonight's quand...
Submitted to Contest #93
TW: murder, gore The world comes to a stop. One. Two. Three. I count as everything moves in slow motion around me. Four. Five. Six. I can hear my heart beating in my chest at an unusual speed. Seven. Eight. Nine. What have I done? I can hear my name being called, but it seems to be coming from so far away, like I'm underwater. "Gabby." Am I drowning? "Gabby!" Ten. "Come with us right now!" I don't have time to nod, or agree, or do anything before I'm b...
Submitted to Contest #92
The incessant sound of the light switch clicking echoed in the darkness of the room. Clutching her towel closer to her chest Lydia maneuvered her way through the apartment, knowing the layout quite well even in the pitch black that overtook the entire place. As soon as the cold air hit her damp skin she knew she'd made it to the living room where the window was wide open as she'd left it. She felt for the switch there too and once again it clicked in vain. Llydia sighed, it seemed the power was out. Walking further into her apartmen...
Submitted to Contest #71
The weather was cold and gloomy when the detective stepped foot outside of the precinct. Of all the cases stacked up on his desk, he had to be stuck with the least interesting one. You would think during the holidays, when crime is usually thriving, he would get a more interesting one but alas he was tasked with solving this one in the near future. For the second time that week the detective drove through the familiar streets until he was parked outside the bakery. Little Rainbow's Bakery. The owner, an old couple stood waiting inside. "...
Submitted to Contest #68
It had been twenty-four years since she'd last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. The same dingy walls and sticky floor, except now it was empty. Abandoned. She looked to her left, the supposed dining room area was still covered with the same wallpaper, unfinished, just as she remembered. Of course the ince pretty rose petal design was buried under a thick layer of dust and dirt. She wondered if the rest of the house was still the same too, one room in particular, sparked a feeling in her she hadn't felt in a long time. Fear. ...
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