KATIE ANNE DOURE'S TINY WORLD SNOW GLOBE
ISSUE FIVE: July, 2020
KATIE ANNE DOURE'S TINY WORLD SNOW GLOBE
She feels conflicted about punishing her daughter again. It might be seen as a compromise, if she simply insists the lights off.
She’s aware there isn’t a vengeful bone in her daughter’s body. She has none. Katie Doure is a porcelain dolly.
It isn’t because she wastes dream electricity throughout the night, or because she insists on sleeping in layers of sweat soaked bedclothes and blankies. Mother already knows her only daughter isn’t as sweet as a Vidalia onion.
Mother’s not pleased with her ribald report cards or the school fights when they call her Sour Lemon Doure. But that isn’t a reason.
Katie will be severely punished for not shaking her snow globe in the dark.
Mother says, “How dare you expect a perfect, tiny world through all that white noise?”
DAN A. CARDOZA’S fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have met international acceptance. Most recently, his work is featured in, or will soon be featured in the 45th Parallel, Bull, Cleaver, Entropy, Five on the Fifth, Gravel, Literary Heist, Montana Mouthful, New Flash Fiction Review and Spelk.