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Weekly Contest #103
Cinderella: Before and After My mother always said she was going to put her loose photos into an album. When she learned about digitizing photos, she said she would probably do that instead. In the end, she did nothing and the cancer caught up with her. Now she is lying here in a hospital bed, her frail white hand marked by a roadmap of blue veins pointing her to the end of her 78 years on earth. I sit next to her but I don’t reach for her hand. We have never been on those terms and it’s too late now. I have brought the photos to the hospi...
Weekly Contest #65
“Love Your Costume” Nancy Brigham There’s a lot I didn’t know about the afterlife. I mean it’s not like there’s a manual or a video on YouTube to prepare you. Some of it’s pretty strange. For example, we each have to keep a journal. You’re supposed to tell the journal how you feel and if you’re homesick or anything. If you put in your journal anything about being unhappy, you get a visit from a psych angel. I didn’t know exactly what a psych angel did to make things better, because, until today, I have never been really homesick for life o...
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