Collecting Ynes
ShortStory 940 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Ynes doesn’t remember the marigold, but she has a recurring dream in which she accidentally swallows an entire tangerine. She grows very warm and realizes it was not a tangerine at all but a small sun. She knows if she tells her mother what she swallowed, there will be a panic. So instead, she keeps her mouth shut."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Fantasy, where the author gets the click.