Samantha Carleton

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“The Queen of the Snow Encounters the World” by Samantha Carleton

Submitted to Contest #77

Roxana sat by the bedroom window and watched snowflakes as big and fluffy as cotton balls melt into the sidewalk. She pulled the blanket her mother had knit up around her shoulders like a cape, then dragged the ends behind her as she padded down the ground-floor apartment's hallway.  "I want to go outside," she announced to her mother, who sat at the little table in the living room with a stack of bills.  "It's too cold to go out right now," her mother said without looking up. "Besides, the steps are probably iced over, and I d...

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Believer in big ideas, hot pink, and the healing magic of Tylenol & Coca-Cola. Writer, Cubanita, Bostonian. She/her.