Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Drowning and Flying
©June 9th 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Recently divorced, she lives with her son, and struggles to keep them afloat.
Tonight, she dreams she’s underwater. There are no mermaids or mermen, no sea creatures, no coral reefs to be discovered – just water everywhere, greenish-blue salt water, and broken plastic.
She dreams she is drowning in it all, and brackish water is entering her lungs.
That’s when she awakes, heart hammering in her ribs, breath coming out in jerks.
She lies awake, troubled, agitated, thinking of the future her son will face.
Finally, she falls asleep, and dreams of star-ships and warp-drives.
Dreaming, she begins to smile.
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Thanks to Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and to Doug McIlroy for the photograph.