Averey’s Adventures
By Shelley Brooks Sample
The following excerpts are from a new collection of short stories Avery’s Adventures ...a dream?...time travel?...a wild imagination? the complete story can be found on Facebook at On the Write Path Images by Terry kathryn Lawrence She had guarded that old box that now sat next to her as if someone might break in and steal it. Grammie had entrusted it to her over a year ago, yet it remained unopened. Inside were the only remaining possessions of her Great Aunt Sam, Grammies elder sister. Aunt Sam had never had children, so now the cardboard box, marked my favorite things, belonged to Averey. She didn’t remember very much about her great aunt except that she had been a writer and had loved to travel. * * * * Putting her wine glass down, she nervously reached her hand into the loosely closed top of the old cardboard box and pulled out something wrapped in tissue paper. She gently unfolded the tissue to reveal a beautiful, elaborately decorated, full face mask. It was a Venetian mask, the kind worn at Carnival in Venice. Averey suspected her Aunt Sam must have bought it in Venice on one of her many trips to Europe. Turning the mask around, she couldn’t resist the urge to put it on. Masks had always made her feel like she was suffocating, but now, at 23 years old, this mask made her feel light and free as though she was flying off to a distant land. But that was silly, it must be the wine!
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