Fixer Upper
Posted in Fiction, Short Stories, tagged Creative Writing, Fiction, Fixer Upper, Short Stories, Writing on May 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The splinter’s been in his hand for three days. Under the skin, it’s black, stained with old dried blood. The area around this little nuisance is red, swollen and tender. It’s infected.
This little foreign object, this sliver of wood, this dagger, is stuck somewhere in the middle of the web that stretches from his thumb [...]
