Nicole Caldwell

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“A New Day” by Nicole Caldwell

Submitted to Contest #43

The old woman never smiled. Yet, there it was. The thin line of her lips in an upturn at the corners of her mouth. The boy who found her thought she was sleeping, but the neighbors in the hallway called her “dead.” Something much more serious, apparently. The boy simply noticed how her skirt twisted as if in a twirl and her once puckered face looked relaxed and easy. “Mama, it looks like she’s dancing,” the boy said. His shaking mother whisked him away. Just two hours before, the old woman sat at her kitchen table in an entirely different st...

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