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Flash Fiction Friday: Blank Space

Writer's picture: Laura L. ZimmermanLaura L. Zimmerman

Dishes clink. Leather aroma of coffee mixed with fresh baked bread, sautéed garlic and spinach. Impatient scream of steam and froth, another latte born.

Still no words. A blank space where once a story sat, now empty. Waiting.

A shift, a stretch. Neck kinked and knotted from an evening of painful searches, a delve deep within.

Where were the words? 

Laughter from the table nearby.

Still nothing. Absence. Void.

Then a glimmer, the sparkle of a crown. A toddler in pink, hand tight in mom’s.

An idea. A smile.

Fingers on keys.

“Once upon a time…”

© Laura L. Zimmerman 2016

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