Same bus route to college; nothing had changed. New cargo jeans, angled bob haircut, laptop rucksack; ready for the semester.
At home, a single wineglass by the sink; the garage was full of old yearbooks, bikes.
Heavy backpacks jostled; she studied her course schedule: same college as sixty-five years before.
Ellen Townsend is an art teacher and writer. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine, Friday Flash Fiction, 50-Word Stories and others.
You’re never too old to learn something new, to set yourself new challenges. A lovely story!
This is a story so evocative of small town goings-on that It sent me back 30 years when I left mine (at 17)…