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Weekly Contest #372
Laurel couldn’t breathe. Not that that mattered to her tía Rosa, whose arms crushed her in a bear hug. “I forget how beautiful you are, mija!” She cried, “why you stay away so long?” Her family was always prone to exaggeration. Really it had only been a year since they last saw each other on Thanksgiving for her mom’s birthday. Too short a time if you asked Laurel, but she supposed when the black cat lived with her phone on do not disturb a year of unanswered calls could feel like a decade. Standing rod stiff in the doorway of her tía’...
Weekly Contest #371
Francine couldn’t remember when the noise had stopped. It might have been a month. A week? Maybe only an hour passed, or a handful of minutes. For all her thirty years of life she’d known a world that screamed from sun up to sun down, but there was no one left now to say for sure that it ever existed, only things. She rode her cruiser bike down Samuel Twain Street. The sun was setting, but a storm that traveled across the bay made the sky a pouting shade of gray. To her left a neat line of office buildings flew past like the stroke of a...
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