jess thomson
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How are you supposed to feel the day before you meet your soulmate? Surely, an event so life altering and Earth shattering is something you can feel coming, approaching rapidly round the corner along with your gentle voice. Surely, an event so memorable was one I’d looked forward to, one I’d anticipated as the days came nearer. Surely.
By jess thomson4 years ago in Fiction
Cupid’s one arrow
The gravel holding Alexander’s feet crunches with each step, so slow and strategically plotted. Countless names surround him, dates of the years he fails to remember, rotting lilies marking their graves; how could he ever know? Alexander squints, wondering how he’ll ever find her name amongst the thousands around her. It had once stuck out like a sore thumb: Cecelia Rosalie Croft. ‘Croft,’ being the last name he jumped to share with her, is something he’d never forget. For fifty-two years Cecelia held his surname and made it her own and now, engraved on her tombstone, it appeared like scrabble.
By jess thomson4 years ago in Fiction
Miss Marigold. Third Place in SFS 4: Golden Summer Challenge.
I must have circled the never-ending hallways a thousand times. Wheeling the portable IV at my feet, I almost clipped my toes as I steered to the left. A beautiful sign had once been strung on the now plain, wooden door. A photo of a beautiful marigold flower. Everything about them resembled her perfectly, and not just because of her name.
By jess thomson5 years ago in Fiction
