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Weekly Contest #377
“I want my Mama!” The child cried. I struggled against the urge to roll my eyes, the girl had been dead for nearly two hundred years yet she still knew how to pitch an awful fit. Despite her tantrums I had come to see Jane as something of a little sister. Death was taking more and more from the girl’s memory with every day that passed. Secretly I wondered when it would begin taking my mind as well. That was if it hadn’t already. I picked up my skirts and crouched down. “Your Mama is gone, just like mine. Come now Jane, I know you remember.” ...
Weekly Contest #376
It was quiet the night I died. I remember it quite well as one with any amount of sense should. After all one’s death is nearly as important as their birth. The illness had taken most of the town, so when the first bloody coughs came late that evening, I did not tell my mother. No, best to keep her from worrying. No doubt she would find me come morning. I stared out at the night sky. I was to meet him tonight. Him. The feel of his skin on mine, his hands gripping my waist. It was a fantasy I my mind would not be swayed from pursuing. He woul...
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