Stymied Once Again

by Louella Lester


Mom doesn’t push one of her sister’s bras—buys a new one. She argues, but Mom insists and at eleven she’s still just pliable enough… until Donny Melchuk points out the bra’s outline to his idiot friends and she has to punch him and his nose bleeds loads and Mrs Whit sends her home to think about what she’s done and on her way she sends that stupid ass bra sailing out into the lake and when she gets home Mom says the teacher called, but Mom must see something of Dad in her eyes and says nothing else…


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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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