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Submitted to Contest #128
1925 words A Cup of Tea By Richard Ervin Ault Jocelyn Urabana (Joss) was concerned when she went to the sun porch and detected tears in her wife’s eyes. Lana Hartman was in her usual well-worn wicker easy chair, looking out over the Huron River in Ann Arbor. She slowly looked up. All Joss could think to say was “I’ll make us some tea.” Lana tried to swallow her tears and put on a fragile smile. “Thank you,” she said in a feeble voice. By the time Joss returned with the pot and two mugs, Lana had straightened ...
Submitted to Contest #90
The Landscape Doesn’t Care Minnie was still recovering and short of breath from her bout with COVID-19 when she attended the first face-to-face meeting of the Innisfree Resident Council meeting since the disease had shut most activities down. Now that almost everyone on the campus of the retirement community was fully vaccinated, things were gradually opening up and momentum was growing for a celebration. Before she retired to Innisfree Landings, just off the Jersey shore, Dr. Arminda Byron had been the first African-American femal...
Submitted to Contest #80
1217 words Lady Liberty The women crowded onto their chartered red barge, shadowing President Cleveland’s boat as closely as they could in New York harbor without overtly challenging the security boats around him. Josephine Swenson, age 10, was almost crushed among the women’s bodies. Marrianne, her mother, did her best to protect her. Marianne wanted her daughter to share in this important endeavor by these brave women. The suffragettes had turned out in force with homemade signs and banners to make it known that, while...
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