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Submitted to Contest #101
It is never a good sign when the sound of your body creaking is louder than the dry leaves under your feet. Yet, one step forward after another, the journey must go on. For this time, it was more important than all the previous hundred times that I had been here. The trek up this mountain was never easy. Not when I was seven, not now at forty. “But anything that is of any worth is not so easy to get” my old man used to tell me every single time we climbed up. This was our special sacred ritual from the time I was a little kid. Our way of s...
Submitted to Contest #100
The neatly set dinner table and the carefully folded red chequered napkins were a perfect tell-tale of how important this dinner was for him. It is just once a year that he gets to meet her anymore and for him, everything has to be perfect as it can be on this day.A cruel yet exciting wait ensued now as the clock ticked incessantly. Every second felt like an hour. A really, long boring hour without seeing her. He gently sat down in his usual chair and closed his eyes with a reminiscing smile and a long heavy breath. “This time I need to ask ...
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