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“Hell Is Other People” by Thomas Wetzel

Submitted to Contest #288

"The gates of Hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way.”- VirgilThey all just sat there in the heat, and they waited.The Kid came back. He was walking down the platform with his head hung low, sweat running down his pimpled face, like always. He was sixteen but looked more like thirteen, short and skinny with longish dark hair and a black eye. The black eye was always there. It never faded. He took a seat at the end of the bench with the others and looked down at his dirty old sneakers.Roman: Same shit, little man?...

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“Beyond the Veil” by James Scott

Submitted to Contest #288

Pana relished the cool, soothing flow of heavy rainfall upon her waxy skin. The increased tempo of drops, growing from a constant misting to intense deluge over the course of the morning, was most welcome. Silky streams ran all over her body, releasing tension and calming her mind under its familiar, glistening comfort. It also sharpened the curtain of falling water that marked the edge of the known world. Time spent gazing across the border into an alien landscape, festered the lingering anxiety within her chest. No amount of rain could was...

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“The Self Fish” by Paul Spreadbury

Submitted to Contest #288

I wander the seas in search of interesting stories to add to my Collection of Tales with Scales. My name's Paul and I’m a Pencilfish. Us Pencilfish learn to write before we know how to swim. When I recently learned of a request for a story that takes place in a place where weather never changes, I figured all my stories fit that description. Weather, as you landlubbers know it, never changes down here.Every season’s just the same, from one day to the next.It never snows, it never rains, yet everything’s all wet.No autumn leaves for wind...

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“Hell is a Sunny Day” by Audrey Knox

Submitted to Contest #288

Dear Linda, I know you’ll be shocked to receive this letter because I never wrote to you while I was alive, but I met a guy who said he could get a message to the surface in case you ever, I don’t know, visit a medium or go to a séance or something. Knowing you, that’s highly unlikely because I know you’re too smart for all that mumbo jumbo kind of stuff. But I have to try. It’s horrible here. Linda, you have to believe me. You have to do anything in your power possible to avoid the fate that I am suffering right now. It’s hard b...

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“THE PREDESTINATION” by Joanne Oliver

Submitted to Contest #288

"The city had been trapped in darkness for weeks. No sun. No rain. Just a frozen sky.This had led to many theories from global warming to government controlled weather experiments.Lighting up my second cigarette I ignored my distorted reflection in the broken library glass window. Instead I leaned heavily against the grey pebble dashed stone wall kicking an empty gin bottle out of the way As it rolled along the concrete it reminded me of the handwritten guidebook that I would give it to my mother once she was herself again. I wanted her to r...

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“Yearning for the Snow” by Sean Hanson

Submitted to Contest #288

Another day of mild breeze and steady sunshine. For his entire life, 14 year-old Esteban had been trapped in his home village on the southern coast of South America. The rain never fell, the temperature never dropped, and snow was but a fantasy told to children. Esteban loved his town but the monotony of it all left him yearning for more. Day after day he found himself spending more time alone on his roof, staring towards the distant mountains to the north; the snowcaps visible in the distance were the base for his daydreams. An athletic you...

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“Honeymoon in Paradise” by Henry Lansing Woodward

Submitted to Contest #288

Honeymoon in ParadiseAfter about three bounces, the boy bounced out the window andin an instant, he was gone ten floors down. It was another fabulous day in Paradise. One of those days that happens almost every day. This never changing weather draws millions of visitors a year to our cluster of islands and is boringly wonderful, day after day after day. It was once again a borning eight-two degrees, and the Tradewinds were constant at their usual four to six miles-per-hour. I called them “Windfingers” because of the way ...

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