Erica Penfold

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“Dinner at the Watermans” by Erica Penfold

Submitted to Contest #17

The glasses clattered on the tray I was trying to balance. My jittery steps threatened the lives of ten vessels, each one veering to the left and right like drunken stowaways. These glasses, kept prisoner, were determined to fall off and escape. Like any good sea voyage story, someone had to throw themselves overboard.I had just managed to prevent accidental dining death by involuntary tray suicide when Michael burst into the room. I heard a tiny mew escape my lips as I watched ten drunken sailors fall to their parquet death.“Oh god, sorry…I...

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Erica is a fiction writer and poet based in Johannesburg, South Africa.