A One Tight Write can be a powerful piece of writing, painting a stark and disturbing picture in one hundred vivid words.  This contribution below is one such piece.  And don’t forget there’s still time to craft your own gem:

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Missing Things by Julie Weinstein

I am without my green bicycle in the mall and missing my underwear. I have red lipstick on my lips. Christmas music is playing. A strange man is saying I look very pretty and he always wanted to be my bicycle seat. I bite my tongue. It tastes like Vodka and clove cigarettes. He hands me $50 to sit on his lap again. I feel the familiar calluses on his fingers. I recognize he is a friend’s brother. She is no friend now. He says we didn’t have sex and he ate my underwear. I tell him dogs do that.

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