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Submitted to Contest #230
If I survive… Mollie pushes the morbid thought out of her head. Of course, she will survive. She survived the turbulent sixties when all her friends either got strung out on dope or— literally or figuratively—they lost their heads in Vietnam. She survived her abusive ex-husband slamming her head into the wall so hard it left a nose-shaped dent in the plaster. She survived two C-sections, one that left her hemorrhaging for almost a week. Most recently, she survived Covid, the dreaded plague that claimed the lives of much younger and healthier...
Submitted to Contest #222
Zoe never stopped loving her daughter, but she stopped liking her the day Missy sided with her father in a longstanding dispute over potato salad. They insisted the potatoes should be mashed with mayonnaise only, but Zoe preferred chunky with mustard and mayo. The light-yellow hue reminded her of sunshine, and the Lord knew she needed some sunshine. The other way, she thought, was bland both in taste and texture. Missy was thirteen, plenty old enough to express her preferences in salads. Still, her daughter’s choice felt like a betrayal. Ev...
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