A Piece of Bread
I will be posting stories from my Floating Petals collection.
The inspiration for “A Piece of Bread,” my very first story and the first story in the collection, came from the fact I liked the smell of pencil wood resin and sharpening pencils long before I started school. I still love sharpening pencils.
A Piece of Bread
Now I am tall.
I lean over the sink as I suck on a large yellow mango stone. There are bits of mango flesh around my mouth and on my cheeks. Mango juice runs in rivulets down my chin and drips into the sink. Ugh! Now it runs down my arm and drips off my elbow.
I pause, I remember.
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If you’d like to read all 14 short stories in Floating Petals, you can order the paperback at Nanadon Publishing, or download the eBook at Amazon US or Amazon UK.
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