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Submitted to Contest #274
I wonder if my mother knows she's a ghost. Tonight, for the fourth night in a row, I witnessed her haunting my home. The first time, she was in that old dusty pink nightgown she wore so often in my childhood that it seemed like an extra appendage. Her hair was a thick, wild mess atop her head, her veiny chicken legs were glowing pale in the near darkness of my hallway, and she had the usual smudged black makeup around her eyes that had always given her a haggard, raccoon like appearance. Turning the corner to find her there swaying and...
Submitted to Contest #267
A year ago today, through an ear-splitting roar of thunder, Joanie blew out twenty-four pink candles nestled in a red velvet cake with off-white cream cheese frosting. The same cake she had eaten for the previous twenty-three years, at the same table she had eaten every slice at, in the same house she always celebrated in. As she used every bit of air in her lungs to extinguish the mini bonfire, she defied tradition by not making a wish. Instead, she made an internal declaration. If things didn’t change in a year, I’m going to do some...
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