stay, so badly want to stay where she is, but the light is
growing. I duck away. I will this relentless clock to stop as
I crawl to sleep among the worms until the dark calls me
to the next day of my eternity.
Maureen Mancini Amaturo, New York based fashion/beauty
writer and columnist, holds an MFA in Creative Writing, teaches
writing, leads a writing group she founded in 2007, produces literary
events, and has had fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, humor, short
stories, articles, and celebrity interviews published in many journals,
magazines, and anthologies.
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