Your perfume suffuses the hall, assaulting me before you do. Jo Malone Waterlily. You only wear it at night, a panther seducing a mate. Three days ago, I’d clocked the bottle on your vanity, drawn to its pale blue orb....
White Trash
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Emily Hampson
Emily Hampson’s work has appeared in The Sunlight Press, Keystrokes, and WOW! Women On Writing (2021 Flash Fiction contest finalist). In 2023, she won 6th place in the Writer's Digest Short, Short Story Competition and 1st place in the Humor category of the 92nd Annual Writer’s Digest Competition. Emily earned her BA from Stanford University in psychology and resides outside of Chicago with her husband, two daughters, and a mischievous Bernedoodle whose collective antics supply her with endless narrative material.