Donna Fontenot

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“Fire In the Purple Bathroom ” by Donna Fontenot

Submitted to Contest #292

I don’t know why Mother was using purple paint to paint the bathroom. Must have been paint Daddy came up with. Whatever he could get for free, Mother used. Like the orange paint…oh, my! We had orange chairs, tables, and wooden tool handles because we had orange paint. When there was gold spray paint, things like vases, plastic flowers, and macaroni-covered cigar boxes (Vacation Bible School projects) suddenly turned to gold. Whatever the reason, Mother was painting the bathroom a semi-lovely shade of purple/lavender. I was sitting in the...

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