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Submitted to Contest #315
The drive to my sister’s house was gray. Cold for September, the skies threatened to mimic my tears the entire way north to Philadelphia. I didn’t mind. The gray was a calm contrast to the chaos of the last month of my life.It wasn’t the route I usually took. Normally, I’d stay on I-95 and pay Delaware’s toll without thinking twice. But I had no cash, no access to money, and no toll roads.It was the second time in my life that I could remember a day being so appropriately gray; the first was the day my mother died. I will never forget the s...
Submitted to Contest #313
I looked down at my son’s sleeping face. The awkward transition of puberty has made him almost unrecognizable from the early pictures and memories I have of him as he grows into his teenage form. But in this state of sleep, I can see the sweet innocence and soft features that captured my heart when I first saw his eyes, his smile, his cheeks - through the screen of my cell phone. I remember the almost electric shock I felt, as if a direct jolt from the universe, telling me this boy in my phone was meant to be here, in my life. Motherhood ar...
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