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Starla Moore

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Beautiful, Wild and Brave

Starla Moore

Submitted to Contest #92

Deep in the forest of your wildest imagination, there is a place before time, try to remember… When your natural childlike wonder was free to wander the endless golden fields and gargantuan trees adorned in every shade of green, ripened with the sweetest fruits. Can you taste it? The dark ripened plum pulled fresh from the tree, the juice running down your chin and arms, a bite into heaven. Do you remember running wild with your tribe, screaming in an ancient tongue, feeling the spirit of the universe pulling you forward into the unknown? Or...

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The Trickster

Starla Moore

Submitted to Contest #87

I wake to the sound of “Airy” the cock, pushing my quilt to the side of my bed I’m already yelling at his impatience. “Ima comin.” Groaning as I fill a pot with birdseed as I walk outside with my bare feet not even bothering to change into today’s kit. Airy seems momentarily satisfied by the seed I spread through the coop, although he’s quite the unpredictable one, often attacking without warning. As I feel the rest of the chickens, I keep a close eye on Airy. My mother’s got breakfast on, amazing how I can smell it over all the anim...

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The Pandemic Executions.

Starla Moore

Submitted to Contest #84

TW: murder It all started innocently enough, a cold here, a fever there…You would see it on the news, people in foreign countries wearing masks and staying indoors to control the outbreak “fear mongering” the man who would go down in history as the LAST PRESIDENT of the United States would say. Even with the precautions taken, the virus slouched from Bethlehem to our doorsteps. By then all there was to do was stock up on canned food and bolt your latches. What’s funny-well, more ironic to me is the way people behaved when the plague was just...

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