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Submitted to Contest #333
She is leaning across the kitchen table, spoon in one hand, the other cupped beneath to catch any drips. Small dumplings swimming in a spice-laced sauce. The steam floats upward in curls. Comfort food is all about perspective. Her crepe-like hands, soft and spotted, shake slightly. I have time to think, “these will be my hands, too.” 30 years from now I will have my mother’s hands. I say, “Mom, I’m in a bit of a hurry. I have to go soon.” Just then, I could hear the gentle patter of rain starting outside. The rich sauce pooled, threatening t...
Submitted to Contest #328
DOES SOBy Kajsa Alger “Lightning always comes when the rain smells like this,” says Cole. “Does not,” Ruth snarls, taking one last chew on her gum before crushing a nearby ant with the warm, sickly pink blob. An ever-after it never saw coming. “Poor thing,” Cole thinks, watching where the ant used to be. He also thinks, “does so,” but doesn’t say it. Not to Ruth. He shuffles his shoes in the sand and watches them intently, as if without his concentration they may forget what they were doing or where he was going. He hears a light crackling ...
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