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Submitted to Contest #51
I hated stars. Any minute now a guard would approach and the general would have us dead where we stood. And what were we doing? Looking at stars. Light flaring far away. Rave was barely able to slip me out of the feeding tent without alerting guards or our fellow trainees, surely they’d come for us soon. “Hey look it’s a Leo!” Rave said tracing his finger along a particular alignment of stars. “We should be getting back, the general would be mad,” I mumbled. How easily I could have slit his throat within a matter of seconds, but th...
Submitted to Contest #50
Being in love is a sickness. Being in love is a plague. A plague which raids the mind filling it with far distant fantasies one could dream of. Silly placeholders of dopamine excretions until said individual gets their heart “broken”. Yet, for the most part, we choose to let it wander. We choose, to let it swarm and take over us in its entirety. Sentimentality for objects is one thing but heart palpitations for somebody that you truly adore and admire is rather beautiful. A special longing. Perhaps she already saw through my act.&n...
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