Lucille Malloy

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“Still Owe You a Camera” by Lucille Malloy

Submitted to Contest #258

When the police had left John looked around the apartment. An old leather armchair laid on its back like a dead bug, two legs broken and stuffing falling out. The empty fish tank where the snake had lived was next to it. He didn’t know where the snake was. It wasn’t his anyway. He was just looking after it. “For the past five years.” An old voice said in his head. But he had trained himself to ignore that voice, he only continued to look over the apartment. His trophy on the shelf was in pieces, made out of a plastic metal that had...

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Lucille Malloy is a writer and avid reader. She received an honorable mention in the 2023 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for her short story, Over the River and Through the Woodwork. She loves dogs, The Beatles, David Bowie and books especially The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird.