Amber Sparks Creates a 200 word story for Pokrass Prompts!

The amazing Amber Sparks joins the illustrious group of Special Guest Stars here at Pokrass Prompts! I’m blown away by Amber’s tiny 200 word story, “Scabs” (below). Enjoy!

Scabs

by Amber Sparks

The twins, those pretty problems, would skate up and down the picket line at the Amalgamated Sugar plant, screaming “scab” at the people lined up at the door to take the place of the striking workers. Everybody smiled, even the scabs. Their dad’s favorites, the twins would later take their own place on the line years later. They would never leave Baltimore, living alone together in a small apartment over an antique store, drinking tea from chipped cups they got on deep discount from the store. They would break hundreds of hearts that healed, but their own would stay open, red wounds that never scabbed over. They would lose the roller skates, but never that strange sensation of falling on your ass at the moment you were most alive.

Bio:

Amber Sparks is the author of And I Do Not Forgive You, The Unfinished World and Other Stories, and the short story collection, May We Shed These Human Bodies, as well as the co-author of a hybrid novella with Robert Kloss and illustrator Matt Kish, titled The Desert Places. She’s written numerous short stories, flash fictions and essays, which have been featured in various publications and across the web. Say hi on Twitter @ambernoelle.