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Submitted to Contest #314
Every time he closed his eyes, he saw her die again. In every agonizing detail. No matter what, he could never save her. And he tried, boy did he try. Her big brown eyes widened, the headlights cast a shadow over her face, but he could still see the fear. The last thing she ever screamed was his name, “Thomas!” It echoed in his ears, even in waking hours sometimes. So did the sound of all the glass shattering, who knew there would be so much glass.He shouldn’t have been driving so fast, it was raining after all. They were arguing and in his ...
Submitted to Contest #313
My mom told me to always lock my bedroom door at night. It had two rusty deadbolts, one above and one below the door handle. I turned them each three times every night. Lock. Unlock. Lock. Unlock. Lock. I learned early on that it was useless to ask my mother why. Her eyebrows would pull together, her forehead would get that familiar wrinkle in the middle, and she would shake her head just enough to jangle her earrings, but she would never justify a response.Half asleep, most nights I could hear the door handle turning. Some nights it would b...
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