2023 SS Prompt 2: Blossom
It’s the bleach. It’s the bleach, all right. Also, the orange awning, the unassuming plywood frame, topped with a little bell, behind which everything becomes surreal. Like being dead. It’s the lot: the overdone sanitation at the check-in plus Father’s…...
Amanda’s eyes fluttered open. As she became aware that it was light in the bedroom, she sat up abruptly looking to the crib on the other side of her parents’ guest bedroom where she had put Eli to bed last…...
Arvilla stood at the window. The room reeked of dying. And apple pie. She watched Annie Sutterton crossing the dooryard. Her face raised to the morning sun, her strides long and loping. Her baby, bundled in bright cloth, was…...
After the praise and worship, the Pastor Owens stepped onto the podium and instructed us to go through the book of genesis as he explained the story of Joseph and how he maneuvered through the injustice. “Always be faithful in…...
On the day Becky’s childhood ended, her friend Danny came over to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Afterward, she asked her dad if they could go ride their bikes. “OK, just stay away from the construction site,” he said. They rode…...
