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“Jess, roll up your window and make sure that your door is locked. Look straight ahead and don't look at anyone on the streets.”
“Why Dad,
are we being followed or something?”
“Just do as
I say, we're driving through a bad neighborhood.”
“But Dad, this
is California, everyone is so nice here, how bad can it be?”
“This is
Watts, and here if the whites go into the blacks neighborhood there could be
lots of trouble, so just look straight ahead, we'll be out of here soon.”
“Seriously,
that sounds ridiculous but I'll do as you ask Dad.”
Join a great bunch of writers over at Carrot Ranch each week who write a 99 word (no more, no less) flash fiction from the prompts that +Charli Mills gives us. This week the prompt is to write a story that tackles racism.
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Please feel free to leave any comments or questions you may have. Thank you so much. Susan