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Understanding by Katherine DeGilio

by Randall Brown | January 15, 2019 12:06 am | 1 comment

She used to pull the cov­ers over her head when shad­ows mor­phed into mon­sters.

One day she walked into her room, tears cling­ing to her cheeks, and the mon­ster growled.
She growled loud­er.

Now she dan­gles her arm out the side of her bed, and they hold hands.

The End.

Author's Note

“Under­stand­ing” was the first flash fic­tion I’ve ever pub­lished and went on to win sto­ry of the month (Octo­ber 2018) on fiftywordstories.com. While it wasn’t the inspi­ra­tion for the sto­ry, since being writ­ten, “Under­stand­ing” has always remind­ed me of Monster’s Inc. How­ev­er, the actu­al inspi­ra­tion for “Under­stand­ing” was my fas­ci­na­tion with men­tal health and heal­ing. Some dis­or­ders can­not be cured, but they can be man­aged, and one can find them­selves mak­ing peace with their mon­sters.

About the Author

Kather­ine DeGilio is a free­lance writer and pro­fes­sion­al red­head. She is an avid par­tic­i­pa­tor in Nano Writ­ing Month and is cur­rent­ly edit­ing the first draft of last years nano nov­el. You can find some of her pre­vi­ous pub­li­ca­tions in Litro Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine, Psy­ch2­Go Mag­a­zine, Solil­o­quies Anthol­o­gy Lit­er­ary Mag­a­zine, and Novem­ber Falls by Zim­bell House Pub­lish­ing. She loves hear­ing from read­ers and encour­ages them to con­nect with her on twit­ter: @katiedegilio.

One comment

From Robert McBrearty

January 15, 2019 at 3:00 pm

I enjoyed this. I like the tran­si­tions, how much of the change in the dynam­ic you get across in so few words. Love­ly.

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