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Submitted to Contest #322
It took a while for Deuce to catch up with his brother Romeo, but he managed to do so in the end after he had searched late into the night.When Deuce caught up with his older brother, his sibling was standing in an open space next to a building and looking up yearningly at one of the balconies on the first floor of the apartment block.Deuce recognized the look on Romeo’s face the moment he saw him. ‘Okay he’s got the “hots” for someone in that apartment’, Deuce giggled to himself as he settled himself close to where his brother was standing....
Submitted to Contest #298
The formal dinner had just ended, and the waiters were swiftly and silently clearing the last of the used cups and dishes from the tables as the guests engaged in polite small talk. As Henry listened to the conversations around the dinner table, he found that his mind was distracted, unable to focus or follow anything that was being said. ‘This is it’, the young man said to himself, ‘I’m nearly there. In a short time, I will be done with the initiation process and I will be in the Circle.’ The opulence of the ballroom that they were in im...
Submitted to Contest #297
It was just before midnight and the bar was almost empty. Sam the barman was not busy as there was only one customer seated in the far end of his bar, who sat alone nursing the remains of his glass of bourbon and had been doing so for the last hour.Sam didn’t know the old man’s name, but he was an occasional customer who was over the last few weeks beginning to graduate to having “regular” status, so Sam was confident that it was only a matter of time before he would not only learn the guy’s name, but he was also going to get to hear his lif...
Submitted to Contest #296
Life changing events that have the potential to totally upend a person’s life normally never arrive announced. So, seismic occurrences like traffic accidents or lottery wins are always complete surprises. For Lisa it started as a regular Monday of the last week of the tax year in her accountancy office. In other words, it was a time of frenzied activity; chaotic shuffling of files; shouting at secretaries, support staff and messengers; and of running in circles between taking sips of cold coffees over empty pizza boxes. At about 3.15 pm th...
Submitted to Contest #295
Andy stood over Cassandra’s open casket and surveyed her pale white face for the longest few minutes of his life. The traffic accident that had ended her life unexpectedly had not affected her beauty at all in Andy’s eyes.In death, her face was a shadow of what it was in life. To Andy, as he looked down at her lifeless features, the face he was looking at did not look anything like the person he had known all his life. The figure that lay in the casket did not resemble Cassandra, the girl who had charmed and captivated him for the last three...
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