She flicks the hot cocoa bag with her finger, priming it the way the nurse used to prime her hospital IV bag, wondering, had she never come home again, how her children would’ve warmed themselves after an hour in the snow, or if anyone would’ve taken them sledding at all.
Francesca Leader wrote this story.
After failing to buy limes, she gives up on the recipe,
____Goes walking in the park,
____Does a double-take at seeing a lime in the dirt.
Weeks later, same spot, another double-take:
____A single-serve apple sauce for tonight’s recipe.
____Organic!
Soon, she will learn
____Expectation strips portals of all magic.
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We stroll around casually, taking it all in, and we can hardly believe our good fortune. The grass is greener, skies bluer, the sun shines bright, and food grows in abundance. Its inhabitants seem clueless, but this Earth place is exactly what we’ve been searching for.
Let’s make our move!
Pamela is a writer and a poet who loves to travel.