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Weekly Contest #42
THE NORNSThe train rocked from side to side and the words on the page blurred. Valerie Carrington removed her reading glasses, pinched her nose and rubbed her eyes. The drab, shadowy suburbs of London flew past, a ghostly canvas hanging from the forbidding winter sky. Staring at her reflection through the grimy window, Valerie brushed a wayward curl from her face, wincing at the sight of the grey streaks running through her thick, unruly red hair. ‘Have you thought about dying your hair,’ her mother had said just yesterday. Followed by a cu...
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