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Weekly Contest #79
She sat her pen down and plopped her head into one hand, pulling her hair out of its tight bun with the other. Her long dark hair fell down her back. Exhaustion rolled over her like rocks down a hill, her body aching all over. Natalie had just received a phone call from her brother. He was in jail, again, and asking for bail, again. Persistently telling her he wasn’t sure they would release him if she didn’t bail him out. Choking and coughing through his own tears, knowing if she didn’t come through he would be detoxing soon. She couldn’t do...
Weekly Contest #77
She felt the warmth of the fireplace wash over her body. Grace got up from her bed wrapped up in her cozy blanket. Shuffling her fuzzy socked feet over to the window, she looked out over her land. The snow was newly fallen, and the pond was glistening with the shine of ice. She looked longingly at the ice. The pond out back was built just for her. Now, in her old age, it was mostly used for grandkids. She rarely walked down there any more. At 80 years old her daughter wouldn’t like the idea of her going alone anyway. Looking out one more ti...
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