Christee Fontanez

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“Yellow” by Christee Fontanez

Submitted to Contest #273

Allison steps out of her house and smiles at the crispness of the late morning air. Her brown hair pulled back with a navy scrunchy. Red lipstick and a pair of chunky, white headphones that blue tooth to her phone. It’s her favorite time of year. Fall in the Appalachians is the best place in the world to live. Chilly days with the full sun shining on her face. She likes to think it’s her mother looking down on her from Heaven.She’s headed to the Apple Harvest Fall Festival in a nearby town; the one her mother used to take her to when she was...

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When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a writer. All through school and college, you couldn’t find me without a pen in my hand. Then life sort of gets in the way sometimes, doesn’t it? Many decades later, with a daughter grown, my husband and I travel full-time in a vintage Airstream trailer with our son. Back and forth between the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia and various beaches of Florida, running our online marketing business. Between travel, work and homeschool, I have finally found quiet pockets of time during my day and creative words are once again flowing through my “penny pencil”. And I am content.