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Sophie De La Fuente

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2026

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Pink Glove

The glove arrived three days after the funeral.No note. No return address. Just a small cardboard box on the kitchen table beside the unopened condolence cards and the bowl of oranges beginning to collapse into themselves.Eva almost threw it away unopened.Her mother had hated pink.Not mildly disliked it. Hated it with a personal intensity, as if the color itself had insulted her once in public.“Pink is what people use when they want to disguise cruelty as softness,” she used to say.So the glove made no sense.It lay inside the box folded care...

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