Dirty Looks Violet turns from the fireplace and brings her hands to her face as tears streak her cheeks. I was only gone for a couple minutes. Her mouth falls open and I brace for an ear-piercing wail. Instead, I meet silence. It isn’t the peaceful hush one might expect […]
holiday writing experiment
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Mary, Did You Know? “Ms. Jacobson! Ms. Jacobson!” the throng of journalists, stuffed elbows to armpits into the steamy press room, cried out. Each one shouting louder than the previous one, they tried garnering the willowy woman’s attention. She simply stood behind the podium fidgeting with the microphone. The amplified […]
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas I remember my bedroom as though it was yesterday. It had what I assume are the same trappings of any twelve year old girl. The bedspread was a royal purple hue, the drapes lavender, and the carpet shaded more lilac than any other chromatic […]