Hayley Stokes
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Stories (10/0)
All’s Fair in Love
Thursday- I stood poised behind the counter, my feet perfectly balanced. The dart was pinched neatly between my fingers. A carnie with a greasy-looking gray beard was watching me, but I barely noticed him, or his lazy eye on my every move, or his wheezy breath. All my senses were fixed on a purple balloon straight ahead of me. I narrowed my eyes and took a few steps back, careful that my feet didn’t kick up any plumes of dust from the dirty ground below me. I couldn’t let anything impair my sight now. From my less-than-perfect vision, the balloon looked about the right distance away for the dart to hit.
By Hayley Stokes 9 months ago in Fiction
Floating Dandelion Heads
Floating Dandelion Heads They told me at the start of the school year that Alice would be a difficult kid to work with. They had not been wrong, exactly. She was unresponsive, to say the least. She never raised her hand, never answered when I called on her. I tried to pick the easiest questions, things I knew from her tests that she could answer. I did not want to pressure her, just try and get her talking. Each time, though, all she did was look at me with a dull, brown-eyed stare, shrug, and put her head down on her desk.
By Hayley Stokes 10 months ago in Fiction
The Starlight Under the Ice
It had been Claire’s idea to visit her parent’s old cabin in the woods. They used to take her there when she was a little girl, and she always used to talk so fondly of sitting at the banks of the lakes and fishing with her father. She always thought the best part about it wasn’t what her father caught for dinner that night; it was just the feeling of the earth between her toes as the lake water lapped at her feet.
By Hayley Stokes 2 years ago in Fiction