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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Back at the lake
The frozen water’s perfect skin is flawed. An arm’s length from the jetty a jagged scar has knitted up the wound I made when I pushed you in. © Helen Whittaker http://theduckside.com
Forgotten
I’m sitting on a single bed with pounding heart and aching head. My memory’s stuck – it won’t rewind. I haven’t lost my mind. The décor’s apple-green and chrome. Wherever I am, it isn’t home. They say I’m free but I feel confined. I haven’t lost my mind. The pills they make me take are [...]
