FICTION | DRABBLE | GAMES

The First Time She Played This Scary Game

She thought she would die.

Scarlet Ibis James 🦩
Fiction Shorts
Published in
2 min readJan 13, 2024

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tight on the face of little brown girl standing against a wall.
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I press my back against the hallway wall and squeeze my eyes shut.

Stop breathing hard! They’ll hear you!

I think about the book, Gone But Never Forgotten, Mama read to me.

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Scarlet Ibis James 🦩
Fiction Shorts

My stories burst out of me, spilling joy, I hope, here and there.