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Submitted to Contest #69
A Conversation with my Mother I walk up to her front door and pause. I take a deep breath in through my nose filling my lungs beyond capacity, holding it for as long as I can. Maybe the stress in my lungs will somehow make the conversation easier. My eyes close, and they have that stinging feeling I get when I am about to cry. I am not sad or scared or even particularly worried about the inevitable conversation. Yet, something inside of me still feels like I am that little boy trying desperately to get his mother’s attention. Like I am stil...
Submitted to Contest #68
All Day and a Night “Everyone on the ground!” He waved around a large gun like a maniac. I dropped to the floor immediately. I’ve never seen a gun that big in my whole life, and I’d seen my fair share. It looked like it could put a hole in Superman’s chest. The man in the light blue Elsa mask, whacked the decrepit security guard in the side of the head, knocking him to the floor in a crumpled heap. A small dribble of blood escaped from under the man’s cap. I felt bad for him but I wasn’t going to say shit. I just needed to...
Submitted to Contest #67
The Zahk-Za Bazaar When my ship docks on planet Zahk-Za, my hyperbaric sleep chamber automatically begins the awakening process. I’m always groggy after years of hyper sleep, but I also feel refreshed as if my body had been completely regenerated. That’s because it has. I step out onto the cold ship floor which I can feel intensely since my bare feet were now soft on the bottom from the regeneration process. I stretch my arms and check the gauges and realize it was the fourth rotation of the 87th Sun, which meant I was absurdly late by 3 ...
Submitted to Contest #65
It was supposed to be fun. Just an overnight out with a few of my friends. With the corona virus and everything, it wasn’t like we could do the things we would normally do on Halloween like: collect candy, egg a few middle schoolers or toilet paper someone’s house. Well, in hindsight I guess we still could have but we would have stuck out when there were no other people roaming the streets. Our town was kind of a drag before the virus, but things got some much more boring. When Pete came up with the idea, I immediately had a bad feeli...
Submitted to Contest #55
Secrets The news had been covering the murders seemingly nonstop over the past 18 months and Diane was getting sick of it. While she was definitely sympathetic to the tragedies that befell the coeds, she always felt they bore some of the responsibility of their fates. As a strong Christian woman, she believed that Godly living was imperative to survival in a godless world. She felt emphatically that her Christian values are what kept her and her family safe. Her daughter was away at school and it scared her a little bit. She was a great g...
Submitted to Contest #54
I was lying in bed, just spinning through social media to pass the time before my eyes got heavy, when she popped up on my feed as someone 'suggested for me'. My stomach dropped and a frog jumped into my throat. I sat up and clicked on the image of her smiling holding a handsome little boy. She was even more stunning than before. I scrolled through her page, recognizing friends and family members who I had met when we dated back in high school. Her dark brown hair still spiraled down her back. She traded in her jerseys and air forces for blo...
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