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Submitted to Contest #138
The Forest UnknownI walk through the forest, I'm supposed to be asleep. There’s a scent in the air, and its covering me like a heavy moist blanket (the nice kind) and the biting brisk wind is awakening. I walk on the forest floor, hues of green and brown surrounding me in layers.The twigs snap under my boots and my candle lights the way, for heaven forbid I use a torch and modernise myself on this walk I am taking.But I cannot remember what made me get up, or why I even started this journey impromptu. But I do know that the least I cant to i...
Submitted to Contest #123
I start playing the keys, flowing through them as smooth and sharp as a river may go. I don’t know if I’ll make it, for there are too many obstacles, pieces of wood floating downstream, hell-bent on interrupting my flow. I’m a sea now……. Or perhaps a ship floating on its surface..... I can hear violins, sweet and mournful, (is that how they sound?) in perfect rhythm with my playing….. Although… I know not what it is that I am performing, perhaps I practised so much that I no longer feel the need to be there while my hands and feet do their ...
Submitted to Contest #121
“Thanks a lot” Jade said…. In such a deadpan voice that I half believed she was just a programming speaking through a broken mic. Of course I knew it was all sarcasm but it was who it was directed at that made it a little surprising as to what she said. After all, the person at the receiving end of this sarcasm was quite the ace student, Scarlett, with what seemed to be a secret sort of Nero complex (and by secret I mean obvious if you really look into It.) but nevertheless an interesting person to have a conversation with. Everyone has th...
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