Mary Dix

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ā€œChain Reactionsā€ by Mary Dix

Submitted to Contest #155

Just as I am walking out of the grocery store, the bag in my right-hand rips. This starts a chain reaction that sends a bottle of Dr. Pepper skidding across the parking lot. An elderly woman blows through the stop sign in the pedestrian crossing and swerves to miss me. She drives right over the bottle. The pressure creates a mini-explosion which sends the soda shooting out of the bottle and right into my face. Iā€™m standing there, one intact back in my other hand and a pile of groceries at my feet. Dr. Pepper all over me. I have to pick up Gr...

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Hello! I'm Mary and I have just started sharing my writing with others after years of dabbling. I would love all feedback. Please be kind though, I want to learn from the feedback and not get upset :)