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Purple Glasses

October 13, 2020 4 Comments

By Kelly Louisa Balliu

He spots the paints when I decide it’s time to go through your things. I tell him not now. Not yet. He sees red, kicking my coffee everywhere. I kneel, surveying the tan Arabica sinking into the powder blue rug. We both cry. I reach out and he cuddles me.

“Sorry, mummy.”

I try and remember where the paintbrushes are.

I watch him, as I watched you; the frantic strokes causing paint to splash his hair and face. He is contented. Swirling my brush into his multicolour mix, I draw a smiley face. He adds purple glasses. He never forgot you.

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  1. Wendy Blake says

    October 13, 2020 at 6:17 am

    I love it! I want to read on….more please…

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    • Kelly Louisa Balliu says

      October 13, 2020 at 8:01 am

      Thanks Wend ? Your feedback always means so much to me.

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      • Kelly Louisa Balliu says

        October 13, 2020 at 8:04 am

        Sorry – the ? was meant to be a ?

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      • Kelly Louisa Balliu says

        October 13, 2020 at 8:07 am

        My smiley faces keep being posted as question marks! Apologies x

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