Emily Sherwood
Bio
Education PhD. World traveler. Writer.
Stories (2/0)
The Window
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. Craggy mountains were blanketed in trees. Wild honeysuckle grew in patches, and deer, much freer than Ginger, munched on grass. It could have been the backyard of her home, a hundred miles away. It might as well have been a million miles, though, for it was a very different world here, in the Godly kingdom of Heritage. Here, she was stuck. She felt like the walls were closing in on her, and the window only made it worse by giving a tantalizing view of a life outside these four walls.
By Emily Sherwoodabout a year ago in Fiction
The Box of Life and Death
2022 When Georgia was 40 and had just returned from three years teaching in Thailand, the box arrived. It came by drone, gracefully falling to the ground. Old Mrs. Jenkins, Georgia’s neighbor who lived two units down, yelled “it’s a bomb!” when it dropped.
By Emily Sherwoodabout a year ago in Fiction