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Weekly Contest #62
Death sits calmly across the table from you, fingers neatly steepled, a cup of tea at one elbow. You are in a small, brightly lit room with only one door and you can’t remember how you arrived. It is just the two of you seated in high backed office chairs; the kind with wheels and good back support. Death is waiting politely for you to speak. You look at the tea and try to gather your thoughts. It smells herbal. The meeting has been going on a while. “How can I know for sure?” you try again. “You can’t.&nbs...
Weekly Contest #60
Her mother shook corn into a bucket with the familiar clinking sound that filled Maisy’s heart with dread. She sat at the table, biting her nails and looking anxiously out of the kitchen window. “Now,” her mother walked over with the bucket and set it down on the table, “be very careful not to drop any this time.” Maisy looked up, lower lip already quivering. “I’m having none of that this morning, Maisy.” Her mother turned away to stir the porridge on the stove. “We don’t expect much of you and your dad works very hard ...
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