When the Time is Right

WTR: 3

Sue The girl standing in front of her in the checkout line had stopped unloading her groceries. Sue gave a strong ahem to get the girl moving, but she seemed distracted by the news report on the screen above the cashier’s head. Sue rolled her cart closer to the girl in another passive attempt to…
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WTR: 2

Avi Avi stood over her coworker, Deb, as the news station blared from the woman’s desktop screen. Deb had an obsession with cacti, and her desk was swarming with both real and plastic varieties of the plant. Avi tucked in her shoulders to escape skewering herself on the particularly imposing cactus tucked into the corner…
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WTR: 1

Mary Mary let the steaming water run over her fingers as she filled the sink. A couple of pink plastic cups wedged their way free and floated to the top of the soapy pile. She savored the heat on her fingers and sighed, torn between the pleasant feel of the rushing water and the nagging…
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WTR: Prologue

I had a story idea over the summer that refused to leave the forefront of my mind. I started writing about three women in different stages of their life…while they were living out the last days of humanity. I wanted to look at the idea of how we would live our lives differently if we,…
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Kat Fink