Leah Gabriel

Joined June 2021

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Golden Years
The phone was ringing for the second time in five minutes. It broke through the quiet morning and startled the cat, who jumped down from the windowsill where she had been enjoying the early sunlight. The unwelcome calls set my teeth on edge. I was grateful when the ringing stopped but wondered, briefly, why anyone would call me at seven a.m. The spam calls didn't usually start until midday and at my age, I didn't have many friends who were still around to call.
By Leah Gabriel4 years ago in Fiction
happenstance
“So he rocks on up in this antediluvian hoopty but with swag, you know? So fuckin’ cool that he could have been riding his little sister’s bike and I still would have gone with him.” The girl paused and stared out of the diner window while she bit at the edge of her first finger. She did not look like the kind of girl who knew how to use the word ‘antediluvian’ in a sentence. The F-bomb fit, though, to a tee.
By Leah Gabriel4 years ago in Fiction
Abby
Mrs. Perkins sat up a little bit straighter in the truck's passenger seat as they turned onto the bumpy dirt road. Still dirt, she mused to herself, and after all these years.
By Leah Gabriel5 years ago in Fiction
What Once Was
Here goes, Joey thought. He closed his eyes and breathed in through his nose, slowly and deeply, listening to the birds, the insects, the frogs. It was funny how quickly the animals had come back to the city.
By Leah Gabriel5 years ago in Fiction