SS Prompt 5: They never said anything
Word count: 1200 words exactly
Deadline: 19 May 2021
Please do not post before the deadline.
We’ll love each other forever by Tallemaja # I was eager to please my husband, and during lunchtime I drove home. Quietly opened the door, went in on tiptoe; Alex liked to sleep for a long time. I listened. The…...
Lectio Divina by Ana Diaz # From her second-floor balcony, Maud has the best view of the feet. “First, second, fifth, piqué.” Aileen, Maud’s next-door neighbor, has a clear perspective of the dancer’s face – a boy? His body is…...
Voices by Isabella Attard # Back in the safety of her bedroom, Kate closed the door against the world, flung herself onto her bed and allowed free rein to the tears that had been welling up all day, wondering, again,…...
Best Friends by Megan Choritz Smoke curled down the street, moving in heavy wafts through the cold air. Dim yellow haloes from ancient streetlamps weren’t enough to reach into the corners, the alleys, the sunken doorways of this forgotten street…...
