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INSIGNIFICANT ACT OF A CAT – DESCENDANT OF A LEOPARD

Submitted to Contest #57

Insignificant it may be the Friday morning’s in the Middle East for many, but for someone like me, I anxiously long for it. I am steadfast in sticking to the routine and head to have my breakfast at the nearest cafe. It was not just a Friday but the one after the Booker Prize for 2018 are announced in the month of October when winter season has set in, in its coolest, in its figurative sense and not in the literal sense of the term. This time around the Irish author made it to the top. Anna Burns, the author whose book Milkman with a pin...

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Not exactly stolen

Submitted to Contest #57

Gumon got high on the new found glitter. All famous people shook hands and talked literature to him. Women with heady perfumes surrounded him and his already dizzy head started floating. His fingers ached, signing autographs. A remotest corner of his heart or brain, he could not make out which one, kept hissing,”Hey cheapo! You don’t belong here. What if you are caught?” “You have done a great job for a first timer, Mr. Rae,” Someone who sounded important addressed him. Gumon turned back to see a man around sixty years of age, tall and by...

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Birthday Nightmare

Submitted to Contest #57

“Happy birthday Anastasia, look what I’ve got for ya!” Nah..too indifferent.“Happy sixteenth year to my sweetheart, I’ve got something I’m sure you’ll simply adore!” Too romantic. It was the twenty-fourth time I’d been rehearsing how to wish my bestie on her sixteenth birthday. Well, she was more than a best friend to me but she did not know that. Tomorrow was her sixteenth birthday and I’ve planned to give her a mind-blowing gadget. A time turner.I had worked days and nights to make this one. But it’s gonna be worth it. This spectacula...

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The misadventures of the antisocial King

Submitted to Contest #57

Damn that first old man. It’s been one hundred seventy-three years, four days, nine hours, thirty-four minutes and six, seven, eight… seconds, since that day (approximately, of course). Initially, strangers believe it is crazy to keep counting each second that goes by, since it had all ended. But that’s just it. Visitors do not understand the traditions of that iper, mega small town (seriously, when kids get bored, they start counting the number of houses and those numbers end way before their boredom disappears), and honestly… neither do I....

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A pomegranate and a painting

Submitted to Contest #57

Have you ever wondered why there’s a pomegranate in Salvador Dali’s painting “Sting Caused by the Flight of a Bee…”? You know the Spanish artist? I’m sure you’re familiar with the picture I’m talking about, or maybe not. After all, it’s pretty complex to explain (that’s perhaps why you don’t remember it as well as say those warped watches and time pieces in the most well-known of his paintings, “The Persistence of Memory”), so let me describe it to you. Right slap bang in the middle (well okay, a little towards the bottom) there’s a naked ...

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Dr. Jerkenstein and the Time Machine

Submitted to Contest #57

Dr. Jerkenstein and the Time Machine Dr. Jerkenstein paced back and forth in his lab. He ran the calculations again in his head. I believe I have done the math correctly, he thought. I save my place in history with the time stamp, and I can go forward X amount of years. Dr. Jerkenstein passed the machine back and forth between his hands. The greatest invention in history was basically an old calculator. Reggie squawked and ruffled his pink feathers before he devoured the carcass in front of him. Lyra told Dr. Jerkenstein that it looked like...

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A Loss and a Change

Submitted to Contest #57

Sitting in the study of his mansion in New York City, billionaire Noah Johnson was preparing his will. “I’m bequeathing this company and all my wealth to my son, Aaron T. Johnson.” He knew that this would cause some backlash by company directors as well as the public. But Aaron was his only son and Noah loved him.“WHAT?!?” protested Bill Nelson a heavy set, short and bald man who was also there with him. He was Noah’s personal confidant and friend “Noah this is insane. You know very well that Aaron is nothing but an irresponsible brat who th...

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The Heart of a Serpent

Submitted to Contest #57

A stream of crimson drips trails down my palm, landing into the fire with a sizzle. It’s done, and there’s no going back now. Jax wraps my hand in a bandage. Though the familiar sting of pain is still there, I’ve gotten used to it. Everyone speaks in hushed voices, the fire just bright enough to light up the curiosity in their eyes. I meet their gaze and search for the slightest hint of fear. There’s nothing. Biting my lip, I retreat into the darkness and let it consume me in its chilling embrace. I am a Serpentine now, leader of the un...

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Saving Giles

Submitted to Contest #57

The attention exhausted Didier Doman beyond his normal fatigue. Jason was back in his town were he had been bourn and raised. Les Ormes 12 in Clelles. A village name that nobody knew, a street that even the other inhabitants of Clelles tried to forget it existed. He had played with his brother around the gloomy farm. His mother always busy trying to keep it clean, but it was way too much for her. Didier’s father rented himself to the farmers in the neighbourhoods. He brought home a little money that allowed them to live for another day or tw...

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Hard work and its rewards

Submitted to Contest #57

I had a good feeling about this one. All the tests so far had gone as they should. This might be it. As exhausted as I was after the long day of work, I couldn’t wait to tell my husband about my day. He was a biochemist too, but he focused mainly on bacterial diseases. Even if the clock was nearing 11 pm, I knew he would still be up watching breaking bad. “Frank!” I yelled as soon as I stepped in through the front door. “Geez, Lydia, my heart nearly jumped out of my throat!” he screamed in shock. “Sorry!” I yelled back as I took off my c...

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The Turnaround

Submitted to Contest #57

Cheers rose up from the small crowd. All in black t-shirts and jeans, six men were sitting in a café right next to the barbershop. They watched the groom walk.  “Ooo, Mr Groom!”  “Hey! Handsome guy!” Soon, one of the cheers evolved into a full sentence: “Look how handsome you are!” “Sure I am!” The groom approved. His entire being smelled orange cologne. And his harsh blue suit was in perfect tune with his freshly trimmed goatee. “You know, you still have time!” Finally, a complex sentence! There were “only three hours”...

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Just a Little Piddle

Submitted to Contest #57

My great uncle peed on a cat whose tail was on fire.  In this town, that’s what having the last name Holland reminds people of. I see it in the new bank teller’s face when I swipe my card to make a deposit.  “Ava Holland? You wouldn’t perchance be related to-” I cut off the chipper box dyed blonde with the Maybelline Scarlet Flame lipstick smudged on her front teeth.  “Henry Holland. HH. Yep, he was a great uncle.” I wait for the onslaught of weird secondhand hero worship to engulf me, and I’m not disappointed. Or, I mea...

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My own little light

Submitted to Contest #57

I come from a long line of Monster Hunters. it was something that I abhorred because the creatures we hunted weren't always monsters. I saw these creatures as they were. Most were harmless. I had never came across one that was deadly. I would often set them free when I found them in traps. I did this so much that my parents stopped bringing me along. I decided I wasn't going to go into the family business. I had even made friends with Lily. Lily was a siren. I met her while on a family vacation to our home in the islands. Lily saved my life....

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Forward In Time

Submitted to Contest #57

 Kelsey Rose Brown didn't like being around her crazy uncle, let alone him and her cousin Alex. Her parents were moving but they didn't want her to be in the way, so she was forced to go live with them. Alex was super annoying. He was a year older than her, making him 16. When she arrived at their house, no one answered the door. She knocked twice more and decided to just push open the door. “Hello Brown” groaned Alex. “Oh shut up” Kelsey replied. “Whatever. Your room is downstairs in the basement” he continued “Also, don't go into ...

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The building walls of lies and deceit

Submitted to Contest #57

On a cold night, i sat at the corner of my room cold and pale as several thoughts ran into my head. Then i quickly recalled on an incident that happened at school as i recalled on the incident .I began to get furious at Amilia my childhood friend at least lets say she was. It all happened at art class , when our art class teacher Mrs pickle weather said she had an announcement to make ,she said a painting contest was coming up and the best painter gets their painting hung in the school hallway and gets a statue that best defines their wor...

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