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Submitted to Contest #105
That was the day he did it. Three, two, one. Swish. I use to watch him from across the street on my balcony, he did it every day. Swish. He ripped it, the turnaround fadeaway as the buzzer expired. He was fairly tall, I think he’s about 6’1 now. He’d be wearing one of the many shirts in his gym strip rotation. From basketball camps upstate, and from tournaments, warmup shirts and jerseys of his favourite players. Perspiration would dampen his hair, forming dark patches on his lean back. Swish. Tony was a great kid. If I didn’t...
Submitted to Contest #84
Sunlight streamed through the circular manhole, leaving an oval of light on the floor, revealing carved notches; a recurrent marking of midday, or at least his only known equivalent. This daily illumination the only time keeper of an indeterminable solitary confinement. The ship rolled gently with the waves as he etched a single line, diagonally crossing the 361st, 362nd, 363rd and 364th tallies completing a quintet, bringing the scratched count to an entire long year locked inside the holding cell of his own ship. He wasn’...
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