Welcome to The Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014! This year, I’m offering up a story – each one 100 words or fewer - for each letter of the alphabet.
Some are heartfelt, poignant, sweet. Others are…not.
I hope you enjoy them.
Clara fumbles her hat, her scarf. Arthritis slows her, doesn’t stop her. She finally maneuvers her wheelchair to the big glass doors. She smiles at the blizzard outside, pretends she’s in a snow globe.
*****
YET SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
Clara fumbles her hat, her scarf. Arthritis slows her, doesn’t stop her. She finally maneuvers her wheelchair to the big glass doors. She smiles at the blizzard outside, pretends she’s in a snow globe.
The doors slide open, close. Orderlies and nurses rush,
changing shifts. Clara must hurry. She’ll be spotted, scolded, taken back to
her room.
She wheels herself into the storm, the cold breath-taking,
memory-giving. She sticks out her tongue, catching snowflakes as delicate as
lace, as fleeting and fragile as life.
She nods, satisfied. They still taste the way they did when
she was a girl.
*****
