I wrote this story for Round 8 of SPARK. To see the photograph that inspired it, go to http://www.getsparked.org/spark8/helen-whittaker-and-edite-haberman This story won second place in the June 2010 Global Short Story Competition at http://www.globalshortstories.net/index.html The trouble with Adam I’m waiting in the reception area at Happy Bunnies day care. In one corner of the room [...]
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Stained lips
I remember when you were a bridesmaid at Aunt Evie’s wedding. Someone gave you a blackcurrant whistle pop and your lips turned purple. It took me half an hour to scrub the stain off. That green sheet doesn’t look anything like your bridesmaid’s dress and the purple stain on your lips won’t come off no [...]
Connections
One August afternoon two children play a game Of knuckle bones against a shady garden wall. The older, Claudia, berates her little brother For cheating all the time. ‘Now Max, you must play fair!’ Young Max’s eyes well up, his bottom lip sticks out. Beneath his breath he calls his sister by a name. A [...]
