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Submitted to Contest #334
HERE EVER AFTERCharlotte knew it was time to let people know what was happening, how the situation had changed. She wasn’t often stumped for an opening for the letters she had been writing to a group of friends and family for a long time, but she was this time and finally decided it wasn’t a time for craft, rather a time to just say what was on her mind.“Dearest friends and family,” she wrote, pausing for s scant second over separating friends from family but moving on quickly. “Jim has come home from the latest hospital stay into home hos...
Submitted to Contest #269
When their child was six years old, Charlotte and Don spent a month in Histon Head, South Carolina. They drove there in their 1958 two-tone green Cadillac that looked like a tank, had plastic seat covers shot through with silver, and got about 9 inches to the gallon. They made the trip over several days, stopping in some town Charlotte no longer remembers except for the Mexican restaurant they found the next morning, which served a breakfast so big they all needed a 15-minute nap in the car before resuming the driving.&...
Submitted to Contest #261
We found Beau in the early afternoon in Fayetteville, North Carolina when we were driving back to New York from Florida. We didn’t so much as find him as we had to swerve our car when the one ahead of us threw him out without stopping. The three of us, my husband, his teenage daughter, and I got to the pile in the road without knowing if he was dead or alive. He was in the gravel in a shallow ditch, very still, but managed to move his head and look up at us. We were relieved that he didn’t seem to be injured a...
Submitted to Contest #243
Tess woke up remembering something from the days before. She had been only a child then and the story was old at that time, so it was amazing that what she recalled was so vivid, so fresh in her bones. The story had terrified her the first time she heard it, yet something drew her to read it over and over in the decades that followed. Maybe there was a message in it she was supposed to discover. It was a Ray Bradbury science fiction story called All Summer In A Day about people who colonized Venus where the sun came out o...
Submitted to Contest #222
For Charlotte, it was a reunion straight out of the movies, which was appropriate since it was with the woman who had been her drama teacher and mentor in college; a woman, it would be accurate to say, Charlotte had openly adored from the first moment she saw her on the first day of classes of freshman year. Nancy – Mrs. I, as we called our professors in those days, glided into the classroom, graceful, feminine, and important even on those impossibly high heels, wearing a tight skirt and tucked in sweater.&n...
Submitted to Contest #216
NOTE: This story has to do with a young woman's first sexual encounter. Charlotte knew he was going to be the first person she slept with as soon as she saw him. Such an archaic phrase she thought to herself even as she was feeling her heart speed up, a flush start creeping up her body from the regions she was planning on indulging, and her voice rise. She was an intern at a radio station and in between her junior and senior years of college. It was part of her scholarship obligation to find an internship in communications ...
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