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ON the way here

3/25/2018

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On the way here, the sidewalk started wobbling. I thought at first it was me, like maybe I broke a heel or something, but then I saw a guy in front of me lean against a mailbox. Too much to drink, he muttered. I didn’t correct him. I figured out that if I slid my feet while I walked the wobbling sort of evened out so it was more like ice skating, or how ice skating would be if there were hills. It would have been okay then except the wobbling turned into something more like bouncing. I was starting to take it personally. What did the sidewalk have against me anyway? Did it want me to be late? I tried stamping my feet, pushing down really hard in an effort to quell the cresting concrete. It didn’t work. I tried jumping from swell to swell, timing each leap so I could skim the tops like a squirrel leaping across branches. That didn’t work either. I looked around me to see how other people were dealing this this sudden complication but the other side of the street was calm. Flat. Gray. Normal.
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grand central

3/17/2018

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The train pulled into the station in a gush of steam, hot and smelling of metal. There was a flurry as everyone searched for lost gloves and missing handbags. The children pushed their way along the corridors, scrambling to gather up their suitcases and stuffy winter coats. 

Amy left her novel squashed between two of the cushions.

Nathan left his glasses on the window ledge.

Mrs. Morris left her new lipstick, the dark plum one, in the dusty space beneath the seat but she wouldn’t realize it until the following Sunday when she got dressed to meet Daniel at the fairground.
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Night

3/10/2018

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lunch

3/5/2018

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Outside the window, the owl sang softly to the mouse, hoping to lure her out into the night. The mouse laughed to herself, hunkering down under a mossy rock and watching the clouds drift across the moon. She chewed on one tiny nail.  She groomed the tip of her tail, the soft bit where a few silver hairs grew. The owl tried a different tune. The mouse grew bored. She wondered, if she ran very fast, could she make it to the blackberry bush across the way? Her little hear pitted and patted. Her whiskers twitched.  The owl paused its song and the mouse stuck her nose out and sniffed.
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    • REWIND >
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      • The World of Rewind
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  • About Me
    • Top Five
    • Reading List
    • Author Interview
  • Contact
  • Short Fairies
    • The Piper
    • Cinderella
    • Frog Prince I
    • Hansel and Gretel
    • Rapunzel
    • Ugly Duckling
    • Frog Prince II
    • Beauty and the Beast
    • Snow White
    • Sleeping Beauty
    • Princess and the Pea