CHARITY (a 55-word story)
Charity had always looked younger.
In church, she’d said she was a fifteen year-old orphan from an abusive household.
Nobody had questioned her age.
Charity found a guardian who took her in, registering her in High School.
But her metaphors made teachers suspicious.
And when the police questioned her, she came clean.
Charity was thirty-one.
Alberico Collina
Charity had always looked younger.
In church, she’d said she was a fifteen year-old orphan from an abusive household.
Nobody had questioned her age.
Charity found a guardian who took her in, registering her in High School.
But her metaphors made teachers suspicious.
And when the police questioned her, she came clean.
Charity was thirty-one.
Alberico Collina
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