Three Sudden Fiction/Twitterature Stories
by
Tracy Shawn
The End of the Road
“Don’t take your eyes off the road.” She clamps her hand on his wrist.
“You’re the one who’s going to cause an accident.” He’s still looking at his phone.
She’s crazy with fear. She’s so crazy with it that she screams. He over banks the next turn. They fly without end.
Finding Clarity
When her husband excused himself from Thanksgiving dinner to take a call, she also excused herself. But instead of fleeing to the bathroom, she ran out the front door and drove to the jazz club. Inside the resonance of the bass and the call of the trumpet, she found clarity.
Escaping the Fog
All those bright, happy faces. Waiting. They were all waiting for her to “settle down.” And then she caught the look on Brian’s face. Not of love, but of smug knowing he “had it all.” She whipped off her wedding veil and bolted out of the fog.
Author and speaker Tracy Shawn lives on the Central Coast of California. Her debut novel, The Grace of Crows (Cherokee McGhee, 2013), won awards for Indie fiction, including the 2013 Jack Eadon Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama and Second Place for General Fiction from Reader Views. She’s written numerous articles for print and online publications and has had three short stories published in literary journals. Ms. Shawn is currently revising her second novel. You can visit her website at: www.tracyshawn.com and follow her on Twitter at @TracyShawn
