Mary Hood

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“Alone or Not” by Mary Hood

Submitted to Contest #194

From her chair, Sue silently watched the ant walk with the grain of the wooden floor to the edge of the fireplace. She blinked, and in that brief space, lost sight of its whereabouts. “Warmer temperatures bring the ants inside”, she thought. Earlier that morning, she raked some leaves and winter's remnants from her garden. She found the woody sticks where the peonies soon will fill the air with fragrance. “The ants will open them.”, she remembered saying out loud. She didn’t mind ants or other insects if they stay outside, except daddy lon...

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