More Than One Weekend
Howatt, Zach
Grade: 12
School: Northern Cass
Public School, Hunter ND
Educator: Brittany
Breiland
AWARD: Gold Key, flash fiction
They both had paper name tags pressed to their chests– the
tour guide insisted she know everyone’s names, even though they would only be
on campus for one weekend– but the mother had simply written on hers (in lower
case letters) “parent” to deter confusion, while the daughter’s tag was
completely blank. There wasn’t anything to be done about that.
She and her mother had broken unceremoniously from the pack,
leaving the Memorial Union to have a chat outside. The folders, flyers,
t-shirt, and tuition pricing flopped over the girl’s folded arms like
fly-attracting salmon drying in the heat of the day.
