Dorothy Castle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2023

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“Blue Ridge Rabbits” by Dorothy Castle

Submitted to Contest #228

Some people grind words up in their mouths, clenching their jaws tight enough to crack a molar, scraping their teeth together while they sleep, swallowing the sawdusty grit of their own mouthy bones.  Rae didn’t do that. Grinding her teeth meant making a face, so she churned them up in her stomach instead.  Ma had stopped taking her to doctors – they said she had stomachaches because she was anxious. Now Pepcid repeated, week to week, on Ma’s grocery list, right beside milk and cheese and other weekly, stomach-achey thi...

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