Shortcake
The prompt was simple—but daunting: Explain in detail where you come from and tell us if your new environment is a lot different, a little different, or just “eh.”
She sat cross-legged on her bed, laptop glowing in the dim morning light, and let her fingers hover over the keys. Slowly, she began to type, describing home in vivid detail—the chipped paint on the kitchen walls, the creak of the old porch swing, the way her house was always the gathering place for half the kids in town. She wrote about the comfort in the routine: the scent of coffee and cornbread on Sundays, the sound of her brother’s laughter from the garage, the hum of motorcycles in the distance.
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