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Submitted to Contest #292
© 2025 Linda Angelo Reilly “White Contains All Colors” I awoke in my usual position, lying slightly curled and on my left side. Yanking the quilt from its well-anchored hospital corners, I saw my uncovered knees extending over the edge of the bed and wondered why I habitually avoided the other areas of my mattress. I supposed that the view from my window attracted me at night, when the streetlights illuminated the abandonment of the ci...
Submitted to Contest #291
A sound like the beating of a thousand bird wings startled me from sleep. It was late July, 1993, the year I turned twenty-five. Back then, I didn’t overthink things. Taking life at face value and people at their word, I worked at being as light and breezy as the pink camisole on my mother’s backyard clothesline. Believing good things would happen, I tended to discount the times they didn’t. I shaded my eyes and looked out toward the ocean as my mind focused on the source of t...
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