Strawberry jam under the jelly
Stories Blog Contest #192 winner 🏆 Strawberry Jam Under the Sea Submitted into Contest #192 in response to: Write about someone stuck in an endless cycle who finally manages to break free.... view prompt Aeris Walker FOLLOW 109 likes 102 comments DRAMA CONTEMPORARY FICTION I am swimming, thrusting my arms through golden water—golden like oil. The water grows thick and syrupy, then it pulls me under. I’m in a bottle, glass sloping above me. Someone tilts and pours, and I slide onto a pan, palms burning from the heat. I slip and roll in the slick spill. Steam rises off my wet hair. Then I am smothered under the sticky weight of raw meat. “Mommy, can I sleep with you?” The voice startles me, a breathy whisper in the dark. Then it comes again. “Please? I had a bad dream.” Jack’s lisped dweem melts my heart, and I can’t say no. So, into our bed he comes, nestling himself in between me and his snoring father—a hibernating bear on a weeknight in July. Jack curls an arm around my ...