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Submitted to Contest #325
On nights when the badge reader exhaled its green permission and the glass doors parted like a polite opinion, Evelyn felt the building notice her. Not a welcome—more like recognition. The lobby had the expensive hush of a chapel that had replaced stained glass with LED panels. The plants were alive because someone was paid to trick them into thinking they were in a forest. Water slid down a slate wall with the reliable grace of a well-funded river. Even at midnight the place glowed—not warm light, not cold light, but something that refused ...
Submitted to Contest #324
The day Judy died, the tide came in wrong. Not higher, not louder—just cocked, as if the sea had tilted its head to listen. Waves slanted toward our sagging porch like someone eavesdropping; gulls hung in the air, pinned there by patience. Mr. Peabody raised a hand as he passed, his mouth forming hello or I’m sorry or do you need anything. When someone dies, words turn to soft bread; you can eat and not taste a thing. Inside, a casserole sweated under foil. Aunt Tabitha wiped her hands on her apron. “We’ll do it the way our people know.” She...
Submitted to Contest #323
The ritual begins at noon. Every Friday, the faculty gather in the Atrium, their faces glowing blue from the holographic screens suspended in front of them. Rows of names hover midair — students queued for completion. Each professor stands beneath their column, stylus poised, waiting for the Chancellor’s tone to sound. When it does — a single low note that hums in the bones — they will each perform the gesture that marks another student finished, archived, and optimized. It’s called Completion Day now, though it used to be graduation. Profes...
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