An Amber Alert

Come away, O human child

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand

For the world’s more full of weeping than you can

understand.

 

WB Yeats

 

I heard running…a door open…a door slam; slam so hard my small wooden home shook.

I waited…silence…an eerie deathly silence.

I walked towards the entrance. She was on the floor, knees up, arms holding them tight, head sunk to her chest. Quiet sobs escaping her hunched frame.

‘Lilly.’ I sat close, our bodies touching. Her trembling inner self merged with mine. She calmed. I took her hand.

Her words spewed forth like a giant thundering waterfall. They splashed, they sprayed, they shattered against unseen rocks.

My heart filled with a mother’s rage.

She remembered the registration.

I called the police.

Virginia Miranda

Virginia has entered a number of competitions including, Raspberry & Vine, Tom Howard and the ‘One Book Many Brisbane’s’ for which her works were highly commended on a number of occasions.

Published works in the Brisbane State High School Year book, Brisbane Courier Mail, ‘Me’ magazine, Albert & Logan News, Sea Spray, and the Official Journal of the Air Sea Rescue Association of Qld.

In 2016 Virginia published her first book, Flash Fiction Volume 1. Her eagerly awaited second book, Flash Fiction Volume 2, was published in late 2017.

Virginia is currently a member of Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre, The Brisbane Writers Centre, The Society of Women Writers, The Fellowship of Australian Writers Qld and a The Alliance of Independent Authors.

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