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Weekly Contest #253
I wish I could stay here forever, watching the sun illuminate your face. You look lit up from within. I mentally trace your smile, thinking about the first time I saw it, like you knew a secret no one else did. I wanted to know what it was. All day, as we’ve meandered at the fair, your voice has risen up to a fever pitch in excitement about the deep-fried-whatever, corn dogs, cotton candy. I took a small bite of the cotton candy just to humor you, even though so many of the smells nauseated me. It was like eating sugary air. In one arm you a...
Weekly Contest #252
Lucy James stared into the mirror at the mess that she was. She had lost weight – 10 pounds, 2 ounces, according to her journal – but every time she saw her body in the mirror, she winced slightly. The weight changed, the shape didn’t. She knew her thinking was faulty. She could tick off all the twisted knots in her thinking: weight had nothing to do with being a good person, or being happy. It had nothing to do with being loved. She repeated these logical facts to herself as if a part of her was a professor with a long stick, pointing out a...
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