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Submitted to Contest #210
I’m cozy on the couch with my stuffies after quiet time, but my movie ends and I have to be done. Mom said no more TV before dinner, turn it off, please. “Mom, what if you came to check on me after bed and Elsa was in my room?” “That would be pretty surprising, wouldn’t it?” “Yeah but what if? What if it was real?” “Well honey, Elsa is pretend from a movie. So she wouldn’t be in your room at night.” “She was though. I swear. She was in my room last night.” “Ok hon.” Dad will be home soon. I wish he was home now. Sometimes Mom will cook a...
Submitted to Contest #167
In the fading light of a mild October evening in eastern Pennsylvania, four women, indistinguishable from one another except by their ages, sit around an oblong outdoor table in a lush backyard. A brown-eyed girl, around eight, perches in the lap of a beautiful, skinny teenager who could easily be mistaken for her sister. Grandmother sits on her right, cropped white hair and those same copper penny eyes. To her right, a smiling woman in her early fifties, radiating a secure sense of self. A conspicuously empty chair is on her right, and beyo...
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