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My friend and awesome writer, Cara Michaels, hosts a flash fiction contest that I used to participate in all the time. Thankfully she just started hosting it again and I finally got back on the horse today and participated. Unfortunately, I didn't get my entry in time to be judged, but I still did it. :)

You can see the prompts and all of the other entries HERE.

My entry is below:

Elizabeth was lost in her thoughts, walking through a park near her house. The sun was beginning to set and made the leaves on the trees glow with the burnished colors of fall. It was her favorite time of year.

If she didn’t think too hard, she could almost imagine Jeff walking beside her, his hands brushing hers as they walked. But, it was just an illusion. Just her memories playing tricks on her, of seasons past.

Snow began to fall as she left the park and neared her home. The first snowflakes of winter, little tentative flakes, whisping about in the wind. Something else that Jeff was missing.

He always loved the first snowfall. He said it was the start of a truly magical time of year. Fall was when everything started to die. Winter was when nature rested before restarting in the spring. The snow cleansing the world for another year. She always laughed when he would tell this story. Now she’d give anything to hear him tell it one more time.

Her friends told her it was time to let it go, but she wasn’t ready yet. The vows she swore in front of all her friends and family meant something. Elizabeth wasn’t ready for her winter to end quite yet. She didn’t mind the cold anyway.

@mlgammella
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