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The Eastern Sun

Submitted to Contest #55

The final rise of the eastern sun.  The tranquil sunrise cast untold shadows across the city. The orange light was reflected in her dark eyes. Long shadows slithered onto her face and made her appear older than she was.  Ioni was settled at the local cafe, her nails tapping impatiently against the wooden table. It was now, just before the sun rose fully into the sky, that she called the Golden Hour. Even though people weren’t usually awake at this early hour, there were a few lingerers at the cafe door.  She let out a cloud...

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Heaven's Closer Than You Think

Submitted to Contest #55

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For Sally.

Submitted to Contest #55

“Can you keep a secret?” Sally asked, one autumn evening. We had been sat in the waiting room for the last half hour waiting for information about her father, Brian. He had left the house, for reasons unknown, but he never returned on time. Instead, her mother, Louise, received a call from the hospital. Apparently, his brakes had failed to work so he went barreling into a convenience store a couple towns away. At the time, Sally and I were sitting on kerbs waiting for the cars to cover us in the rainwater from the road’s puddles, making...

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Life As A Telenovela

Submitted to Contest #55

The room was quiet. I could hear a dog barking in the distance, the neighborhood kids playing on the street, the leaves of the big beech tree in my front yard rustling against the glass windows, animated by the playful breeze that had decided to grace us with its presence on this hot October day. All familiar sounds that used to bring me so much joy just until a month ago. It was my house, my living-room, the life that I – that we – had built in the past twenty years, yet I wished I could run as far away from it as possible. I was ashamed. I...

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The Actress and Her Makeup Artist

Submitted to Contest #55

The ageing actress looked at herself in the mirror. She made a small smile. A smile that meant ‘no regrets’. Today was going to be her last day of shooting. It was a decision that was not forced upon her. Despite getting some very interesting roles suiting her age she knew she had enough of it. She wanted to act till she didn’t get bored. Now she was beginning to. Time to hang up my lovely stilettos, she said to herself. She sat in her vanity van, waiting for her makeup artist to come. It was also going to be his last day at work. A decision...

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The Death Of Lewie

Submitted to Contest #55

"My dog died.”Will sat down with us. His face was ashen. He had dark circles under his swollen eyes. He was crying the whole night.“Lewie died?”He nodded numbly. “Yeah. He died.”The four of us sat around a round table. Me, Oliver, Kate and Will.“I’m sorry.”We all knew how much that dog meant to Will. After his parents’ divorce, it never left his side.Personally, I don’t understand this sort of attachment to a mutt, but oh well, it’s not my mutt.“How did it happen?”I surveyed their expressions. It’s an activity that I enjoy. Trying to figure ...

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The Secret in The Purse

Submitted to Contest #55

You ever have one of those moments where you just want to stand somewhere and just scream as loud as your lungs and vocal chords would allow you to scream?Yeah, I see those nods … imagine I am giving you a high five you right now.Today at noon was one of those moments for me. I had just left a 10 o’clock meeting with my publisher . and my head was swimming with about a 100 new ideas. It had been a good meeting – really. My second book’s final draft was accepted and being published in two weeks. The book tour will start a week after that.Two ...

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Alice's Secret

Submitted to Contest #55

“Can you keep a secret?” Alice lifted her head, shifting her attention from the salad she was pushing around on the plate in front of her to the man standing at her side. Justin leaned close, his body curved over Alice, his breath carrying traces of malted wheat as his words brushed across her skin. Alice narrowed her eyes and pointed at the chair across from her.  Justin straightened his body away from her to pull the chair out, the steel feet of the black legs scraping across the concrete of the coffee shop patio. He dropped h...

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Daddy Killed a Lady

Submitted to Contest #55

 “Can you keep a secret?” My little girl whispered in my ear. Annabel had her tiny hand over her mouth. “Daddy killed a lady.”Daddy killed a lady? Why would my baby say that? Her father’s not a killer, is he? I wanted to believe my daughter. There was a killer on the loose. They called this killer, The Violator. According to the news reports, The Violator already killed seven people. The first victim was a mother of two. The police discovered the woman’s body in a pond. Some of her body parts were missing. The police also found hum...

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The Last Hurrah

Submitted to Contest #55

 From the moment he lowered his cup of coffee to the table, the noise in the packed roadside diner slowed until it was completely silent. Seconds of anticipation felt like minutes as Andy, the man sitting across from Douglas, folded his hands in front of him and took a deep breath.“Can you keep a secret?” he asked.Douglas, fork hovering over his breakfast scramble, set the utensil against the table and nodded.“Now we get to it,” he replied. “Didn’t take as long as I was expecting.”“What do you mean?”Douglas shrugged.“You invite me on th...

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A Story Not About the Secret Told, But the One Telling It

Submitted to Contest #55

I tapped my pencil on the hard cover of So You Want to Stop Those Crippling Feelings of Loneliness by Making Friends: the Trilogy. With a nervous chance around the room, I shoved it under a pile of papers. Maybe I didn’t want to get in trouble with my boss for reading it on the job. Maybe I didn't want my colleagues to know I was struggling to make friends. Yeah, that was probably it.They’d probably be shocked. It’s not like I’ve ever had trouble holding up conversations at work. I’ve got plenty of work friends. But the minute I clock o...

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Ambitions Part 2

Submitted to Contest #55

As a child, Mathew Lawrenson had always been taught to play with fire, unlike most safety guidelines. His parents gave him a match and watched him play with it. He was free to do anything he wanted, burn the dog’s tail, burn some newspapers, and even let the matchstick burn until the end, while he was holding it.Eventually, his early training paid out for Mathew. He was inducted into FEAR. Later on, he’d gotten married and had two kids, both of whom were … disappointing. Conan, his older son, had been disowned. Huh. Like he didn’t know the c...

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Demons: Lonely Together

Submitted to Contest #55

"The more you live, the more you realize that reality is just made of pain, suffering and emptiness"- Madara Uchiha***This place is unlike any other lands. This place has buildings, people and animals, like the place you live in, but aside from those life organisms, a different yet terrifying beasts crawl the streets at midnight...People pry that they're 'Demons'.A demon looks like a normal human being, but they can maul your ass to death. But since they are afraid of the sunlight, they roam through the dark corners of the village. So the to...

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The Secrets She Keeps

Submitted to Contest #55

"Can you keep a secret?"This question gets me ALL the time. If I had a dollar for every time someone said this to me, I could retire from my bartending job and live on an uncharted island in the Pacific.It wasn't enough that "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" but the pressure of being a bartender here too?It's not for the faint of heart. Add to this, I'm not your average woman either; makes life difficult.Most of the women I work with are actually gorgeous. Me? I'm what you call "average". I'm five feet five, brownish hair, curvy and ha...

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Sapphire Tears

Submitted to Contest #55

Aimi felt the familiar sensation of a tear rolling down her cheek. She sighed, desperately looking for something, anything, that she could hang on to. The sky was a dark shade of crimson, and Aimi was lost in it’s mysterious void. Where she was, she had no idea. All she remembered was the faint whisper of the wind as she floated farther and farther away from her homeland. All she could think of were the people she was leaving behind, betraying, for better words, and could do nothing to save.  For a short period of time, there was noth...

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