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June 15, 2016
Fiction, Mira Writes

Short Story: Gray

Short Story: Gray
June 15, 2016
Fiction, Mira Writes

Gray/mirabellemorah

I looked at her for as long as I can remember. Beautiful box braids I wish I could afford to make for myself. Her finger nails were polished royal blue with little black stars spotting them.
Her eyebrows weren’t at all looking like those other fake-professionally-touched brows, they were touched quite alright, but they looked natural.
She wore a lipstick the color of nude. Her lower lips had a rather extravagant smiley-curve-rich-beauty about them—I thought.

"Her eyes, the colour of her eyes were gray..."
“Her eyes, the colour of her eyes were gray…”

Her eyes, the colour of her eyes were gray. I looked at them over and over again to make sure I wasn’t wrong. I looked at them until she caught me looking at her.
I gave a sheepish smile. She knew me so she smiled back. Gray eyes, I thought. Gray that reminded me that if I envied her more, whilst in church, my soul would no longer be white. I’d be gray.

Mirabelle Morah.

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