When a Photo Was a Commitment

by Louella Lester

 
Mom smiles, standing in the farm field before heading to school in the big city. She’s wearing a fake fur-collared coat, a jaunty tam, and lipstick that even black and white can’t hide. A cow pat, she surely hasn’t noticed, lurks off to one side. 


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Louella Lester is a writer/photographer in Winnipeg, Canada. Her writing has appeared in Blink Ink, The Odd Magazine, Potato Soup, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Dribble Drabble Review, New Flash Fiction, Cleaver, SoFloPoJo, Emerge Lit, Full House Lit, Flash Flood, and a variety of other journals/anthologies. Her Flash-CNF book, Glass Bricks, is published by At Bay Press. 
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