[Eleanor]: 668.Contest entries.Five Words.October 2007

Alycia came down the slide in a rush, laughing and calling out to her mother, “Again, Mama, again!” Sylvia picked her up and said, “No, honey, we have to go home now,” and watched as her daughter’s blue eyes suddenly filled with tears and she started bawling. She had never known a kid to go from happy to grumpy so quickly as this one. As they left the playground, hand in hand, Sylvia quickly led Alycia away from the chain link fence where something was caught on the spikes adorning the top, and a red liquid was dripping into the storm drain below. Happy Hallowe’en!