After school, I would follow the railroad home. I walked the iron bars step by step by deliberate step, pretending it was a tightrope in the sky and touching the gravel was the equivalent of falling to my death.
To be honest, talking to you gives me the same feeling.
Alison Mirabella is a librarian-by-day, writer-by-night and grad- student-for-whatever-time-is-left living on Long Island. She has nothing published yet, but she is really good at making tiny origami stars. That’s something, right? Check out her Tumblr: i-a-m.tumblr.com
**** I’d like it better without the “To be honest.., don’t think it’s needed
One of the difficulties with this format is the need to be exactly 50 words long. Not only do we have to trim extraneous words, but when we come up a few words short we have to try to only add new words that contribute value.
The “to be honest” in this story is an example of this challenge, I think.