This is the third year that she has haunted me. She is pale and slightly shimmery, as if brushed with frost, but her cheeks are stained with the soft pink of little girls her age. She trails behind the other children...
Cold Comfort
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Rachel O'Cleary
Rachel O'Cleary writes with Writers HQ. She studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and lives with her husband and three children in Ireland, squeezing her obsession for flash fiction into the spaces between school runs. She has won prizes with Free Flash Fiction, Strands, and WOW! Women on Writing, and has work published or forthcoming in Forge Literary Magazine, Milk Candy Review, Janus Literary, Reflex, and several others. She occasionally tweets @RachelOCleary1.