reedsymarketplace
Hire professionals for your project
reedsyblog
Advice, insights and news
reedsylearning
Online publishing courses
reedsylive
Free publishing webinars
reedsydiscovery
Launch your book in style
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2021
Submitted to Contest #103
It took one Polaroid instant photo to erase twenty-five years. There wasn’t even a face in the photo – just hands. Hands holding a large leopard tortoise. Hands with a small piece of mango dangling from the thumb. Hands smeared with the red ochre earth of Kenya. The memory snuck up on me as I slipped the photo out from between the pages of a novel being dropped off at a church yard sale. Years ago, it had become a bookmark, its significance and trauma minimized. In the flurry of illness, packing, leaving and resettling the old had been left...
Oops, you need an account for that!
Log in with your social account:
Or enter your email:
11 likes
