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“Death In A Teahouse” by Ramsey Emerson

Submitted to Contest #128

From her passenger side window, Anne would imagine the windmills were giant steel orchids standing tall above flat fields. The silence in their car was now the new normal. No radio or laughter, only the monotonous noise of wheels rolling over imperfections in the asphalt. Both she and her husband, Bill, were sunken deep in their melancholic thoughts. It was the same trip for several months now, but this time they would make another stop. Life needed to get back on track. Six months before, their daughter had been rushed to a hospital, only...

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“TEA TIME” by Debbie Curtin

Submitted to Contest #128

The things I get myself into, I mused, quietly looking back over the past few years and where life has taken me. With different undercover assignments, I encountered an overload of high gear situations, some taking place in pretty dark places. This morning, the cup I was holding, held a complex brew of tea leaves from a jar labeled, EXPECTATIONS. This was such an inviting aroma and one of an assortment, that I recently purchased at a local tea house upon just arriving to this new assignment location. Another interesting day was brewing, as I...

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“Last Year of Ivory Lodge” by Daryna Tovkach

Submitted to Contest #128

I have to do something with the wall. The formless stains left after the last roof leak dried up to dark brown. I could tear down all these newspapers that cover it and get creative with paint, or, perhaps, someone could fix wooden planks for me. A part of me wants to give it all up, let it die as we are dying out. I stare at the old papers for a while. Some of them date 20, 30 years back. It will be a pity, but it's time to freshen up the place. I think warmly of my youth.Back in that day, we at least had hope. We clung to it and treas...

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“Pokhara in Love” by Eric Holdorf

Submitted to Contest #128

Pokhara in Love “You don’t have to do this,” Cathy said across three locals coming the other way as she dodged around them and a large pothole in the path between the dirty clay-brick buildings. It had rained hard earlier in the night, so the potholes in the cobbles were filled with murky water, and the smell of sewage was seeping up from below. The potholes, like the city, hid things, and if you were patient, reminded you of the benefits of ignorance. Cathy ran ahead and stood ...

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“Sunkaraku” by Maria Avisal

Submitted to Contest #128

The low-level gnawing guilt Diana felt about taking a few hours off from document review for the Steinberg case had not ruined her enjoyment of the Philadelphia Museum of Art yet; in fact it had the opposite effect of reminding her of who she was before law school and before her current 90 hour work weeks in corporate law. What she remembered most from her undergraduate art history degree related to the classical European artists showcased in other wings of the museum, but she had made a ...

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“Meeting at La Véritea” by Gianina Vescovi-Chiordi

Submitted to Contest #128

Melody approached the oversized wooden door of La Véritea House with care. So caught up in making her appointment on this brisk January day, she wore thin, flimsy shoes with hardly any tread, thinking only of the dress code and not the weather. She cursed under her breath as she gingerly navigated the slick stone steps, willing herself to stay upright while salty winds whipped in from the coast. Everyone knew La Véritea as the "High Time House" around town, dubbed as such for its lengthy waitlist and mysterious nature. Case in point ...

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