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Weekly Contest #265
I always wondered what it would be like to have my birth parents love me ever since I found out that I was adopted. Most days, my younger self would sit, lost in revery, in my childhood bedroom built on perfidious intentions. I had this bay window seat in my room growing up that I would always sit on to think, willing my thoughts to take me away from my reality. The window overlooked the old church cemetery that my adoptive father would make me go into every Sunday to pay my respects to deceased priests and diocese members that ca...
Weekly Contest #264
“Jenny, are you almost ready?!” John yelled from the bottom of the stairs. How is he able to speak out of turn after I hexed him last night? There must have been a mistake. I roll my eyes, annoyed with his happy-go-lucky attitude that snaked its way through my efforts. Today is his cousin’s wedding. The thought of his stupid little cousin brings the fiercest energy to my balled-up fists. I force myself to subdue my petulant attitude clawing its way up my throat and heating my cheeks. I urge myself to respond with a lilt, “Oh, sorry sweety! I...
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