#50PreciousWords 2021 Submission {Resource}
I am participating, with a refugee short story, in the 5th annual #50PreciousWords writing contest for children’s writers, being held by Vivian Kirkfield.
Truth be told, I had written a much more uplifting story about a young artist visiting a museum. However, after the Syrian bomb attack by America this week, I thought of the children in the town and my own memories of fleeing arose. This 50 word story wanted to be told instead.
Hopefully the little artist can visit a museum next year.
I am having problems posting it on the main page, so my 50 word entry ‘My Mother’s Whisper’ is below, but will link to it as soon as I am successful.
{Update: after multiple tries, it’s here! Please do stop by & let me know what you think of it.}

My Mother's Whisper by K. Tarapolsi (50 words) Soulless planes deliver bombs. She whispered, if anything happens, I love you. Clenching a sparse suitcase on an overflowing boat, her whispers change to chants. Weeks passed before they cease. Now. Clenching a bursting backpack as crowded school buses deliver children. Again, she whispers, if anything happens, I love you.