Here's my latest contribution to
Five Sentence Fiction.
This week's prompt is Sunshine.
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First she used Sea
and Ski, then when she got older, the more racy iodine with baby oil – these were as necessary as
the old chenille bedspread and the transistor radio. Even from a backyard away,
Francine could feel Danny Parker’s eyes as she released her bathing suits ties
around her neck and lay down on her stomach, her blond ponytail falling onto
her shoulder. Funny how the heat was so much stronger on the backs of her
knees; she’d stay out another half hour, but she’d have to be careful not to
burn the bottoms of her feet like last time. She drifted into a soothing
semi-comatose state, listening to her mother’s vacuum, Mr. Short’s lawn mower,
the distant shrieks of the Tyler
twins across the street as they ran through their sprinkler.
Francine roused herself from her
reverie on the examining table and flinched, her grey hair shaking slightly as
Dr. Petrie eyedroppered liquid nitrogen onto her mottled back.
Still, those were the days. The smell of the new grass in the hot sun.
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