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Submitted to Contest #319
Tooth Decay JackIn loving memory of a mum who wrote poems that turned monsters into teachers. On the night before the dentist, Ellie dreamed of castles. Not the grey stone and moat sort. This was a bright white city, with towers shaped like molars and bridges as shiny as new spoons. She floated over it the way an eagle rides the wind. Wherever she drifted, the streets below hummed a tiny tink, tink, tink, like someone mending a watch.“Hello?” Ellie called, because even in dreams she was politeThe tink, tink, tink stopped. Out from behind a p...
Submitted to Contest #318
On the call sheet she was WOMAN WITH PRAM #3. Props would hand her one and the assistant director would tell her exactly when to cross the aisle. No too fast, not too slow, eyes fixed on a middle distance no one else could see. It was only a supermarket commercial, a morning filler job before she had to dash across town for the show’s opening night of The Last Magnolia. Jade had no doubt that she would do it flawlessly. That was what she did. Move like a shadow in other people’s stories.Between takes she stood beneath rigged lights and let t...
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