100 Word Challenge Week #12

      I should’ve known something would go disastrously wrong. My sister had never been that fervent about a turkey sandwich in her life. Not realizing that the ground was topped with puffs of snow was one thing, but letting Zoey play outside, not clueing in when the kid got super energetic, letting her trip, fall and brake an ankle was another. I hurried her to the hospital and let the nurse slip her behind a silky, white curtain. I watched the nurse change the battery in her walky-talky and murmur into it. She turned around to stare at me incredulously.

“She’s three,” I supplied weakly.

100 Word Challenge Week #11

      I felt awful about using Great Grandpa's old Monk robes, but people shouldn't be able to see it was me who was still grieving. After my best friend was in that terrible car crash two years ago, I've felt truly alone. I just wanted a silent moment to remember her. Alice was great, honest and inspiring. She traveled all around the world helping the communities in need and making children smile. When she went to heaven, we put a plaque on the tree they crashed near. Glimmering Iceland was her true home, and I always will be, her one true companion.

100 Word Challenge Week #8

          I fell asleep that night, dreaming of the swimming trip tomorrow. We celebrated summer at our school by going to Tofino, spending the day swimming, eating huge ice creams, and flopping around like seals on the sand. Beautiful Vancouver Island is where I live, surrounded by the glossy Pacific Ocean,so, a dream like mine could create a life long phobia. In it, I was sloshing through the water -actually whipping cream- flooded with fear. Just as I reached a sand bank, an icy flame shot me upwards. I woke up and switched off my white noise machine. The ocean didn't sound as calming anymore.