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“The winner is… Conner White.” They were standing, applauding him. He was finally getting the credit he was due after 70 years. Shit, he hadn’t prepared his speech. He tried to put one together as he climbed the steps. Awards should have been parceled out over the years, so many people to …
Dolly’s sister had been the belle of the ball. All the eligible bachelors had their eyes on her. She was the pretty one, sweet one, kind one. And with a little help down the stairs from Dolly, she was also now the dead one. Dolly spun in her dead sister’s dress, smiling gaily. All …
The star engulfed the planet in flames– this was the end. The planet knew death. It had endured the extinction of every species that had called it home. It knew these flames of its former star were to be its own demise. These rays had supported life, ages ago, before they bled the …
CONTENT WARNING: Suicide Marina: I hope you find my note. You once said the book Forever is your favorite and you read it twice a year. What you forgot to mention was that you have two books by that title. Pete Hamill’s has earmarks, hope I picked right. Sorry for the bunny bookmark. Knew you …
Hope lay flopped over a lawn chair; she had been there for hours unable to move her limbs, in the throws of a particularly awful depression. All alone until the fly plopped into the swimming pool. The green-tinted vermin swam circles even though it was doomed; the pool was an ocean, yet it continued trying …
While my stepdad placed his stuff into the truck, I wanted to say so many things. That I’d miss the baseball games and his ghost stories. I wanted to thank him for remembering my birthdays when my dad and sometimes even Mom forgot. I wanted him to know that, though Mom was cleaning all evidence …