An Advent Calendar of Stories
December 19 2014
Tread
Gently
Dawn
Knox
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grapefruit juice – bitter and harsh
She wiped her face with
her sleeve. Beads of sweat studded her brow, coalescing to trickle into her
eyes.
“Here,
squeeze this,” he said offering her his hand. “Shall we stop?”
“No!”
she gasped, “We must keep going. I need…” the pain strangled the words in her
throat.
He
silently cursed the government for enforcing this journey. She needed rest and
a bed for the night. Instead, they were miles from home and still hours from
the relatives they must reach before the baby came.
“Faster!”
he whispered in the donkey's ear, “But tread gently, you're carrying a precious
load.”
About the Author
Dawn Knox is married with one son and has been writing
for several years. She has just had a YA eBook published, entitled Daffodil and the Thin Place and has
written a script for a play to commemorate World War One, which has been
performed in her town this year. Dawn enjoys a writing challenge and has had
stories published in various anthologies, including horror and speculative
fiction, as well as romances in several women's magazines. One of her 100 Worders
is included in The Best of CafeLit 2014.
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