smallsmall-Emotion
girl show me school work. teacher put good mark. she smiling before I even look.
I read some words. other words she read for me. she not hurry me.
I was happy. I tell her read that place again so I can hear it well.
small boy come climb my back while she reading. I tell him wait. today I want hear finish.
later madam ask why I smile like somebody give me money. I show her the book.
fees still there. I know. but I want keep this good thing in my head tonight.
loadandgo-Mind
Trying to choose a family film and somehow I've turned it into a vote with eligibility rules because one child keeps nominating things the other has already seen. The Quiet One says seeing a film twice is allowed. I know that, I'm trying to give everybody a fair choice, including ME, which the current procedure has overlooked. At work I can decide quickly when things matter; here I've spent twenty minutes weighing animated animals against a sequel nobody can explain. Beginning to suspect I enjoy running the vote more than I want to watch the film. They have put something on while I've been arguing. Fine. Pass the popcorn.
nonredige-Body
À la bibliothèque, j'ai changé trois fois de position avant d'admettre que le livre n'était pas responsable de ma raideur de nuque. Je le tenais trop bas, penché au-dessus de la table comme sur une copie fautive, et chaque fois que je relevais la tête, il me fallait quelques secondes pour regarder franchement devant moi. Debout près de la fenêtre, c'était plus supportable, mais mes yeux piquaient déjà. J'ai donc quitté une page au milieu d'un raisonnement, événement mineur mais déplaisant. Dehors, marcher sans rien déchiffrer m'a fait du bien ; j'ai même traversé devant une affiche sans en corriger mentalement la syntaxe.
plinthpaper-Body
Crab curry for Sunday lunch. I cracked the shells at the counter and noticed how carefully I was positioning my right thumb, keeping the load off the base without thinking. Clever compensation. Less clever to pretend that means nothing is happening. By the last batch I had that dull local ache, not severe, just persistent enough to spoil the pleasure of licking the sauce off my fingers. My husband took over the final few and made a production of needing professional supervision. I could still smell the spices on my hands after washing twice. The thumb was quieter by supper, which is usually where my investigation ends.
turndown-Emotion
A former attendant called to say she is now supervising a floor at another hotel. She wanted advice about a girl who keeps arriving late, and I was pleased she trusted me, but even more pleased to hear her speaking with that confidence. I remember having to remind her to look up when she answered people. We laughed about it, then she thanked me for buying her lunch during her first week when she had no money left for food. I had almost forgotten that part. After the call I felt very full, very glad, and wanted to tell somebody. I sent my husband a voice message before I could decide it was not important enough to interrupt his day.
joisthanger-Emotion
took my daughter fishing and she caught one little bluegill then spent forever telling it where she was gonna put it back like the fish needed directions lol she wanted me to take a picture but only if we were quick because it had to go home put it back and she watched the spot a long time i was pretty happy just being out there with her she said next time can we bring a sandwich and stay longer no big place she wanted to go no stuff to buy just more time by the water told her yeah we could do that kept thinking about it after i dropped her off still got the picture on my phone
nosepads-Emotion
A woman at the Wawa recognized me from the shop and said I had fitted her daughter's first glasses. The daughter is thirty now, which the woman apparently thought was necessary information. I remembered the little purple frames right away. She said they still had them in a drawer. That pleased me. Most people tell you what broke, not what they kept. I came home and started telling the wife before I had my coat off, and she listened all the way through without saying I had already told her the purple-frame story. I probably have. It was a good fitting. The kid stopped hiding behind her mother's coat when she saw herself in the mirror.
waterice-Emotion
my best friend sent me a picture of her lunch table at her new school and everybody looked so comfortable together that i got upset before i even read what she wrote. she was literally saying one girl had the same terrible pencil case as me, she was thinking about ME, and i was busy zooming in on the girl beside her like a detective with no job. i sent laughing faces because the pencil case thing was funny but then i wanted to say i missed sitting with her and it suddenly sounded way too serious. so i asked if she was free saturday and now im mad at myself for checking whether shes typing. please just answer yes
smallsmall-Mind
net get same small tear again. I mend that place before. now I look at canoe side where it pass. wood rough there.
maybe no be fish doing it. if I only mend net tomorrow it tear same way.
I rub hand along the wood careful. one place catch my skin. I remember old cloth at house. can cover there till owner fix it.
I must tell him before I change his canoe. he like everything his way.
I try the net slow over that place once more. yes. that is where it hold. tomorrow I show him.
smallsmall-Body
catch small. hands wet long time.
left palm stiff where hook cut before. I open hand close hand. then pull again.
sun come up my back warm. shirt wet but breeze cool my neck.
when canoe stop I still feel water moving under me. legs know it even on plank.
madam give me food before counting finish. I sit eat slow. belly was empty since night.
now hand move better. small cut near nail still sting when I wash. I leave net down some time before mend it.