Make something. Anything. Just create.
12 Days of Fiction
I had an idea. An idea that would make the perfect gift for people this holiday season. Story. Creation. Narrative. All for free.
So I contacted some people I know who I thought might make a good fit. People who have a creative streak and have something to say. People from different backgrounds and different ways of expressing themselves.
Each day for 12 days, new material will be released. It's our gift to you. Happy Holidays. Celebrate story.
Blue Hole
by Elizabeth Langemak
The winter mirages ride in on the back of the third snow, or maybe the fourth. It is the snow after the snow when we stop using numbers to measure each drift. When we start dressing without looking outside.
The air is cold beyond counting, a reeducation. Constant pulsing of white. Wind scrapes each tired, thin layer from car roofs and wood paneled porches. It stirs the snow lazily as if into a drink, a frozen blue hole.
I am from here, so cold comes back to me like it has also come from me. It is like a leg of my own I have sawn off and thrown in the spring. In the fall I see it returning, banging around in the mouth of a dumb, faithful dog and when he comes close I grab it. I place the leg under my hip and I stand.
"Blue Hole" originally appeared in The Colorado Review.
Elizabeth Langemak lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she teaches at La Salle University. Find her online at https://elizabethlangemak.wordpress.com/.