PREHISTORY GRAND PRIZE WINNER – BETH TILLMAN: False Reporting

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The cave wall is covered with our story, but the little ones sneak in,
draw, and interfere.

One might think we kill to eat. We tried. Our stomachs revolted.

They just like making blood pictures with that red clay. But clubs
and animal death?

Ack, who will know the difference?

Beth is an estate planning attorney in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and spends her spare time writing a blog at sideglimpses.blogspot.com and sorting through her tangible goods for lost earrings.

PREHISTORY – CATHERINE SEVENHUYSEN: Evolutionary Early Bloomer

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Olive the Ornithomimosaur was hurt, humiliated! A social outcast! She knew it wasn’t normal. She knew her friends would laugh.

Her mother had forbidden her to touch it. Olive would show her.

Olive stretched her tiny arms to her chin and yanked, and just like that, the feather was gone.

Catherine Sevenhuysen is an aspiring actor from Nanaimo, BC, and a proud Auntie to Calvin and Victor.

PREHISTORY – KRYSTYNA FEDOSEJEVS: Dinosaur Cycle

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One, two, crackle, crack, three, five, ten eggs snap open. Mother Sauropod watches her family emerge from a crevice in cooled molten rock.

They wiggle between ferns, over wooden debris, broken concrete. Past skeletal remains: “Homo sapiens,” the mother states.

Nearby lies a torn book cover, words “global warming” intact.

Krystyna Fedosejevs lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She writes and publishes poetry as well as flash fiction.

PREHISTORY – CRAIG HOLZSCHUH: Cavepeople’s Court

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“Steef, plead case,” said the judge.

“Girac keep cave security deposit. Me want it back.”

“Girac, what is defense?”

“You honor, he paint buffalo on walls! Look, I paint them to show court.”

“Judge, want add copyright infringement to suit. Girac unlegally reproduce Steef paintings,” added Steef.

“Verdict for defense.”

Craig has previously been published on fiftywordstories.com and in The Labyrinth.

PREHISTORY – ALISIA FAUST: The Breakup

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Groog no longer looked at Nugnug the way he used to. Now he watched Lala, who wore short loincloths.

“Nogh Lala!” Nugnug said, feeling frustrated and neglected. Groog ignored her.

“Groog!” She punched him in the arm, but he didn’t even flinch.

She sighed.

We need to talk, she thought.

Alisia sometimes likes to write things and posts them at eurasianflavour.wordpress.com or on twitter.

AJ JOSEPH: Biding Time

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You feel the wind kiss your face, dance in your hair. Your white cotton dress swishes around your feet, tickling you.

Your neck itches. You wish you could reach back to scratch it but your hands are bound. The noose around your neck is too tight.

The hangman is late.

AJ Joseph is a bookaholic, semi-insomniac, unsuccessfully recovering javaholic, but most importantly she’s a writer. She is currently in the process of restructuring her life around her first love: words.

MARIAN BROOKS: Color Blind

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“Guess who I’m going to be for Halloween this year, Grandma,” prompts my eight-year-old, freckle-faced granddaughter. She likes to twirl her long, blond braids as she waits for me to answer.

“Hmm. A centipede or house fly?” I guess.

She giggles. “Noooooooo, Grandma! You’re so silly. Number 42, Jackie Robinson!”

Recently retired, Marian Brooks has been writing some short fiction. Her work has appeared in Word Riot, The Short Humour Site, The Linnet’s Wings, Zest Magazine, and elsewhere.

BLEH: iHornet

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Dr. Winslow pressed her hollowed check up against the glass of the enclosure, listening to the whir of a million tiny robotic wings.

The sound of the hive soothed her. As she watched the swirling metallic cyclone within its cylindrical tank, somehow she felt as if she wasn’t so alone.

Bleh is a silly person who likes to think she can write.

DENNIS YADRYSHNIKOV: The Throne

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The silence enveloped me, allowing me to relax deeply. My breathing slowed and my head cleared.

I contemplated my entire life, my goals, and even my possible future. I sat there for what felt like an entire millennium, in reality twenty-five minutes, and I smiled.

Then I flushed the toilet.

Dennis is a beautiful, inspirational, and sexy young man. He loves to write creative and humorous short stories.

ANTHONY GEIST: Sea Monster

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Two boardwalk vendors stand overlooking an astonished throng gathered around the latest oarfish to wash ashore, a fourteen footer.

“What are we going to do?” asks the younger Vince. “This is happening more and more.”

Maki, a veteran in the business, replies, “When life brings you dead fish, make Sushi.”

Anthony Geist was inspired as an undergraduate in the lifelong pursuit of writing by two English professors. Geist’s publications include Slingin’ Slang: The Perusing Parlance Series, Sublimely Flawed: The Art of Being Flagrantly Human, and FROM THE HIP daily: News You Can (T)Rust, under the penname “Tony Baconetti.”