Ann-Marie Everitt

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“Ivy and Chuck” by Ann-Marie Everitt

Submitted to Contest #255

The coffee hissed inside the styrofoam cup, as Ivy stirred the artificial sweetener, she wished it was a faster acting poison. A bent snowflake swayed behind her husband's shoulder, and beyond that the diner’s nativity scene perched precariously on a rotten shelf, threatening to toss the Baby Jesus into the grimy abyss. Perhaps canceling this Christianity movement before it began would have been better for common folks like her. She startled herself, where do thoughts like this come from? Dementia, early stage dementia the social worker had ...

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