Continued from last week’s post. What was happening to my plants? Why were they moving? Something was in the soil underneath. Visions of Kevin Bacon’s 1990 film ‘Tremors’ flashed before my eyes, so I leaped on the wall to avoid being devoured by a gigantic worm-like creature. Time slowed down and sweat beads formed on […]
Sam the Sneezing Scarecrow
May, 2005. I read the text several times over, but there was no escaping what was in it. The relationship was over, along with my plans to spend summer with him in Alaska, away from the searing Maltese heat. My dad saw the look on my face and figured out what happened. The next words […]
England, 2014. I looked at my toddler as she sneezed for the 10th consecutive time. ‘Oh, you poor thing!’ I said as I tried to comfort her. The sneezing continued as she rubbed her red, watery eyes. ‘If only you could talk, Hannah,’ I said. ‘You’d be able to tell me what it is that’s […]
Malta, 2020. It all started during the first lockdown. We were living in a small apartment that had become much smaller; most of our stuff was boxed up and ready to be shipped to England as we prepared to move countries for the second time in three years. The Maltese heat was relentless, as usual, […]
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