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Then the parents packed their bags, moved away, and sold the house. 😉

I loved the mother singing part.

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Haha! And it would have been the right call.

Thank you, Mark.

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I love your family-oriented stories! It's interesting how our phase of life seeps into the stories we write.

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Thanks so much for that, Dascha. They’re fun to write. So true! There are many grains of reality/my life in the stories I create. (Not always, but they do find their way in!)

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Sweet story, Justin. Here is a 200-word story I wrote a year and a half ago on the same theme. https://medium.com/scribe/eddies-world-789e2694ead3?source=friends_link&sk=f3557adc64caaed70b513fc771095c45

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Thank you, Valori! I really enjoyed yours, too. I liked the “cave” comparison.

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