We will be featuring each shortlisted short story from the LWC/Hush competition over the coming weeks in our ezines. Today’s is: Bite in the Air by Sarah E.Moore
I guess you could say I started to straighten my life out same time as I finally got my teeth fixed. It was end of the summer, 1955, and ‘though the evenings were just startin’ to cool off the days were still hot enough to melt the ice in the water pitcher like butter in a pan. Daddy’s old Cadillac was at the garage again so Mama and me had to take the bus downtown, all the windows jammed back as far as they would go and still the air sat on us thick and heavy like we were tucked under a winter quilt. Mama fanned herself with the bus schedule for downtown Montgomery the whole way to the stop on Hickory Road, just round the corner from the dental surgery.
Read the full story in the short story collection, Hush, sold here for £4.95.
Sarah has practised as a lawyer for many years and now lives in North Norfolk with her husband and three children where she intends to write. “Bite in the Air” is her first short story. She can be contacted at sarahelizabeth.moore@hotmail.co.uk