“Yeah, I see it.”
“What should we do?”
“I’m thinking… bring blankets? And food.”
“Seriously? Then how long before more show up?”
“These are people.”
“It’s private property! They’re trespassers. You couldn’t just put up a tent and camp there. Do you want them lighting campfires behind your wooden fence?”
Michelle Dinnick really enjoys writing short fiction. Sometimes she writes longer pieces as well.
I bite my lips: my father, bold, drank Jack in the yard, watered grass with his spit, bit heads off flowers he never planted, and loved those movies where the geezer’s still got a chance, but yet last week he still laughed—so that’s all I mutter: I don’t know.
The only thing that Mark Li (@markliterary) loves more than wandering museums is getting lost in one. However, he laments, the Mona Lisa doesn’t make very good conversation.
There she goes… the woman I called sister. All makes sense now. But… how could she leave me? I was a child! And now, after all these years, she wants me to stop seeing Mum?
Or should I say… Gran?
She’s ringing! No, I can’t… No… What do I do?
Jennifer Busch’s mum is her actual, biological mum. At least as far as she knows.
Rheigina walks into the familiar coffee shop, sitting across from the boy she’s known for years.
“I’m so sorry.”
Her smile dissolves as he wastes no time explaining. His face fractures into unrecognizable pieces. He is sobbing now, and so is she.
“But… you can’t,” she pleads.
“I love you.”
Leona Alonso is a high school sophomore from Texas who has a passion for STEM. However, in her free time she likes to play the viola, write, be with friends and family, as well as take long naps.
“I’m pregnant,” she said.
Her expression showed doubt over his reaction, but also hope.
He smiled, pulled her close, three heartbeats sharing that intimate space.
He remembered his superior’s words: “These are dangerous radicals. Maintain your cover at all costs.”
He understood then that he would never know his child.
Bill lives in Aberdeen, Scotland. See more of his work at northeastnotesblog.wordpress.com