In the Hands of Kismet by Zéfira Maia
Do you believe you have control over your life?
Sometimes, one second is enough to change everything.
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SS Prompt 5: Stale
Word Count: 1200 words exactly
Deadline: 20 May 2020
Please do not post before the deadline.
Madame Aldridge by Janice
“I’ve been expecting you,” said Madame Aldridge. Her small dark eyes glinted in the fading afternoon light. “Please come inside.”
Mindful that her visit was unwelcome, Maggie pasted a smile on her face and stepped inside the old house. Heavy stale air impregnated with sweet-smelling incense clashed with the stench of garlic and fried food. She fought the urge to gag.
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Hindsight by Amrita Sarkar
One player is still in the shadows, rolling the dice without coming into view. Can he change the course of narrative? What will it mean for Rhine Roberts?
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She stands on the train station platform, golden locks blowing in the wind as the steam from the train billows about her. She strikes a model’s pose and awaits. You’ve met her before, I’m sure. A rugged handsome stranger in…...
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Impasse by CE Botha
It all began when Mrs Bianchi made that comment coming down the staircase. As she hadn’t turned the corner yet, she couldn’t see me standing frozen in my doorway. In spite of the fact that the lockdown was being lifted…...
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Consolation by Melissa Dill
Jade was the last person Grimmett wanted to see at the lampwork exhibition. He had fallen short, not for any technical flaws, but for an inability to make the judges feel. But Jade ends up being the exact person he needs to see, someone who believes in him even when he doesn’t.
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“Things seldom are what they seem on the surface.” Those were my great grandmother’s words when I was a little girl of seven or eight. By then she must have been in her nineties. She was a tiny, birdlike woman…...
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Stale Milk by Mara Adlem
This is how I know it is time to start over: stale milk. It reminds me. It is the universe showing me.
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“This was distressing for Roth, who had always been confident that he knew a lot about the world - his father had been an international journalist of great renown, after all.“
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