Life's Rich Pageant_A Bewitching Christmas_Running Out_Visionary
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Life's Rich Pageant
It was very sunny today and the doctor had told Marie to start wearing sunscreen. They had to take off a new skin tag recently, but at her older age she didn’t care. What was a few wrinkles to making her face all shiny and ruining her makeup. The lipstick had some spf or whatever they called it. On her way to the supermart she recalled that she had no cash. All she wanted was their milk and they had a ten dollar minimum to use credit card. It was a small store-too small to really qualify as a supermarket-a holdover from the old days before big box stores stated taking over. Until recently she ...
A Bewitching Christmas
“Christmas is important to Greg and his children, so it’s important to us,” Mother had said when they prepared for this event in the fancy kitchen of the house they’ve shared with Greg and his clan since the wedding two months prior—but the second the mashed cauliflower lands in Nadia’s hair is the second her fuse cinders.Her fork bends in her hand as she turns her head to the right. Trace, Nadia’s sister on paper, is talking to her grandmother with a sparkling smile, like she didn’t just commit the act of a toddler. Nadia drops the deformed utensil on her plate. It clangs and everyone seated ...
Running Out
There is a knock at the door.“Who in the hell is bothering me now?” asks Devlin as he gets up from his cozy chair and marches to the front door. “This better be good, for this is my seventh day. My day to rest.”Devlin opens the door, a fierce look on his face, ready to berate the one who disturbs him. He opens his mouth to speak forth foul words, but clamps it shut when he sees a young girl. Dark, curly hair, and olive skin that is the perfect color for Devlin. She is smiling as she shows off her dimples, and such large, brown eyes with long eyelashes.“I can make lots of money selling h...
Visionary
In my nineteen years of living, I had spent a good amount of time daydreaming about making history. Changing the world. Doing something that mattered.I never thought it would actually happen.But there I was, standing in front of millions of people, about to give a speech that would make history. The cameras were all pointed directly at me, livestreaming what would be written in history books years from now. My years of fantasies were finally coming to fruition, and it was terrifying.I always had stage fright. Back when I was in junior high, I was cast as the lead actress in a play. My grandmot...