By Kate
There should not be an age requirement for a mother.
But at 16 going on 17, it never dawned on me that I could get pregnant. After only a few months passed, my mother noticed my weight gain; I was a curvy girl anyway.
“Here,” she instructed, passing me a basket with a piece of fruit carefully wrapped inside it. She told me to look after it for a week.
Timmy and I took turns to watch over it, and I handed it back to her a week later, slightly browner and rotted.
“No mother is perfect,” she smiled.
The author’s right. Her mother should have prepared her for womanhood.
I remember other students in my high school being fortunate to do a similar assignment. Great writing topic! I enjoyed reading this. Enjoyed the easy flow of sentences.
To me, the first sentence is unnecessary to the final product (but, I think, essential for the writer to grasp the core of this telling). Ten words freed! Copious space to a capable flash writer such as this one.
This has so many layers. I love it-particularly the last line.
Words, expression, style, and deep message is woven so nicely. It is outstanding, Kate.