By Pandora
In response to listed assignments.
The Stray (55 Words)
Five husbands and one now who is not. Venturing out when she won’t be seen. Rejected. Ashamed.
The crazy man: rebel, prophet, both? He speaks of health and truth.
“Are you thirsty?”
Of course: she’s alone, expelled, a stray.
Does it matter if he’s crazy? He’s bothering. Vulnerable, honest. A secret. A new, unexpected Intimacy.
Last Words (One Sentence)
With one foot in the next world and two hands clinging to this one, specifically to the child’s thin forearm in this one, she sputters about meatballs and wars and terrible light before drawing a breath and expelling with a squeal the only eloquent phrase of her life: “Hope, baby, just hope.”
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