Annie Blackwell

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“I've lost my slippers” by Annie Blackwell

Submitted to Contest #244

The photo in my right hand turns every lump in the armchair’s seat to stones, pressing relentlessly. It reminds me how long I’ve sat here wondering about it, and in truth, pretty much everything else. If only I could think harder, drag memories out of the sticky date pudding in my head. My left hand reaches up and finds straggles of hair. No truths to be found there. The Warden comes in and stares at me. He may not be a warden, but when you’re imprisoned in your body everything outside it taunts your incarceration. Nothing is mine any longer...

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Annie Blackwell’s feet straddle the world. Taken to live in India at three-years-old and arriving in her New Zealand homeland at thirty, she previously resided in England, Pakistan, Brazil, Norway, Singapore and Papua New Guinea. Working for government and NGOs, she has tales to tell; companions to stable cleaning, dog walking and ancestry research.