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Blue Baby

(Copyrighted Laura Liberty 2020) Blue Baby Nova sat on her patio, the breeze from the bay blowing her long dark hair into her face. She pushed the strands back into a messy ponytail. She had just turned fifty, but there was scarcely a wrinkle on her youthful face. Only when she laughed, could you see her crow’s feet and laugh lines, evidence of hard but happy years. She sat in the sun for a long time soaking in the warm rays. She smoked one cigarette after another. When she had smoked her last, she wheeled herself back inside for a cup of black coffee.               She had been wheelchair bound since a car accident, but she had been disabled long before that. At her birth, the hospital nicknamed her the “Blue baby”.   When she was born, she didn’t cry. She was as blue as a blueberry ripening in the hot sun. The doctors wanted to let Nova die, but her mother begged them to save her baby’s life.  ...
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Spots

(Copyrighted Laura Liberty 2020) SPOTS              Mary Jo Putney loved her new house. It wasn’t just the large kitchen window overlooking Lake Timpoochee, although she loved the view. It wasn’t the well-manicured yards, although her neighbors were always outside toiling away in perfect gardens, smiling, and waving. It wasn’t even the wrap around porch with tiny yellow flowers growing on vines, although their fragrant sweetness drew her outside like a bee to honey. It was the simple fact that 222 Grayson Point was all hers.             Owning her first home in her late forties was not the real achievement. The real achievement was leaving her abusive husband and making a new life for herself. It had taken her years to pocket enough change to leave him. She worked odd jobs cleaning houses, cooking dinner for her neighbors, and mending clothes, all while he thought...
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