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August 2022 Fiction Contest: Unspun, Unsung
August 25, 2022
The girl’s bag holds the following:
- Set of matryoshka dolls, clumsily painted.
- Housekey.
- Pair of woolen mittens, blue and red, unraveling.
- Unopened package of mooncake: half is meant to be missing, and its wholeness is keener than loss, her yearning not for its sweet chew but—
As she kneels beside the smooth-grafted stones she wonders how one person can have so many ghosts. How the stories they do not tell say more than they themselves ever could.
And how you’d touch her, if you could, if you were here, if on that day you’d been anywhere but—
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This was meant to be short and sweet (a struggle considering my tendency to ramble), so hopefully it worked out! I wanted this to be a story full of potential stories that never got the chance to take flight, and now haunt the main character as ghosts of what could've been.