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it’s quite wrong – 105/1000

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I’ve never been here before, standing in the rain on the sidewalk with a man running the back of his hand down the side of my cheek.

I’ve never felt this before, this sweet electricity, this furious pulse.

But all I can think about are the folds of my stomach, the skin that stretches my shirt too tight, my lumpy thighs in these pants.

He moves his hand down but before he could get past my neck, I stopped him.

“No, I’m sorry,” I said. “My body is not yet ready to be loved.”

“You are quite wrong about that.”… Read the rest

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the dragon – 104/1000

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Something about him looked familiar.

It was the green eyes, the pupils were yellow slits, his skin was thick and looked scaled.

“You have my diamond.”

“It was never your diamond.”

“I’ve protected it for 3,000 years,” he said, and I swear he got bigger.

“You’ll never take it.”

Then, what’s that? Are those wings growing out of his back?

“Give me my diamond,” he said, louder, his breath smelling of sulfur, his neck elongating.

Shit.

It was a dragon.

I clutched my bag with all of the dragon’s jewels inside and ran from him as fast as I could.… Read the rest

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no hope here – 103/1000

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I woke up slowly and saw the bright blue sky above me.

Then their face came into view, along with their panicked voice; “Oh thank goodness you’re awake!”

“Are we here?”

“We crashed. But everyone is okay.”

I sat up and looked around our new planet, and my heart sunk and raced.

Desert. Just desert. As far as I could see.

“Water?”

“No, Captain, we lost it all in the crash.”

“But all twelve souls aboard?”

“Fine, sir,” my lieutenant said.

It didn’t matter, I thought, we would all be dead within hours.

I closed my eyes again to wait.… Read the rest

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the solar field – 102/1000

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They all stared at the horizon with smiles on their faces, smiles wide as miles.

There used to be corn here, rows and rows of it stretching as far as the eyes could see, and now?

Solar panels.

“They’ll save money! The planet! It’s clean energy!”

But the corn is gone.

While they smile at their solar field, I hike up to the farm stand. Tomatoes and peppers in abundance. Cucumbers, green beans, apples.

A man steps up behind me.

“Beautiful, ain’t it? Look at that bright yellow glow!”

I remember a different bright yellow, and it tasted so sweet.… Read the rest

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eternally – 100/1000

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“I’ll love you forever.”

“Well, I think forever is a bit too long,” she said, peeling a patch of his greenish skin off his shoulder as they talked.

“But I can be with you forever,” he said.

She touched his face and then grimaced when more skin fell away at her touch, he was rotting right before her eyes.

“I don’t think you’re going to be here much longer, babe,” she said.

“It doesn’t matter what I look like, does it?”

“Well, not so much, but you need to be all in one piece.”

“I think I lost a piece.”… Read the rest

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not today, bride – 98/1000

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There she stood in her white dress with her father on her arm, a beautiful bouquet of flowers in her hands.

It was her wedding day, the day she had spent her whole life waiting for, and now the time had finally come.

All of the planning, all of the anticipation, the wait was finally over and she was a bride, and about to be a wife.

She was about to be this man’s wife.

The doors opened, the music played, and she walked forward, but no one in the room stood and all was quiet.

He hadn’t shown up.… Read the rest

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tiktok – 96/1000

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“Look at this,” he said, brandishing a flat, shiny rock.

“A relic,” the other man said.

“They called it a cell phone,” the woman whispered, her voice sounding hungry as she reached out for the object.

“Now, now,” the first man said, “Finders keepers.”

“I don’t think so,” the woman said, and then hollered a low grunt as she slammed her weight into him, sending the phone spinning across the floor.

The other man picked up the phone and began running, but it wasn’t long before he heard the woman on his tail.

“Give it! They had something called TikTok!”… Read the rest

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abundance – 92/1000

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When she heard them stirring in bed, she raced up the stairs to greet them.

She licked a forehead, she pounced on feet, she meowed them both wide awake and then bounded downstairs for her breakfast.

She was a good girl, and she knew it.

They were always holding her, petting her, giving her love and affection that some need in abundance, and some need none at all.

She needed an abundance of love, so she was in the right home, with someone who had an abundance of love to give.

What an incredible nine lives she had to spend.… Read the rest

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how i win – 88/1000

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“What’s wrong with her? It’s almost like she doesn’t want you to be happy no matter who you’re with. She only cares about herself.”

“I know, that’s why I’m done with her.”

“You’re not going to say anything back? She said horrible things to you, she was a total bitch to you!”

“No, I’m not a confrontational person like that.”

“How can you let her get away with that? She roasted you!”

“It’s fine.”

“How can you handle being torn apart like that?

“People look at me and think they know all about me, and that is how I win.”… Read the rest

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celebration? 84/1000

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Her love was gone, but her life had to move on, there was no question in that.

She was young, she was beautiful, she had plenty of time left for things to change.

Maybe they would even change here, at this wedding she was invited to; maybe she’d dance with her future husband, and not even know it.

It was hard watching the other couples twirl and kiss when she had no one to touch, or no one to touch her.

Shouldn’t she celebrate the love she wants the most?

It’s hard when you don’t have nearly what you want.… Read the rest