Terri McCormick
Joined February 2021
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THE PRAYING LADY by TERRI MCCORMICK
Willa Salinger took a long drag off her cigarette, feeling the smoke flow into her eagerly waiting lungs. Holding the half-inhaled dart between her fingers, she appreciated having something to do with her hands again. She'd quit for eight days, and in that time, she'd bitten the thumbnail on her right hand down to the quick, making it sore and bloody like a severed stump. But now, as she leaned outside Cecil’s in the greyness of mid-morning in the lull between the breakfast and lunch rushes, she didn’t notice the annoying pain of her chewed thumb. Even the ever-present ache in her chest was starting to subside.
By Terri McCormick3 years ago in Humans