COOKIE CUTTER (5-minute Freewrite)

a 5-minute Freewrite by A.E. Jackson

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She pressed the cookie cutter down into the dough, and it slipped on the wooden table top. The edge of the sharp metal slid across her soft pink finger and cut a slit deep into the tissue. Blood welled up, formed a large pregnant bulb, and dripped down onto the raw cookie dough.

"Damn it!"

"Do you think curse words will make the batter bitter," asked Evangeline. She was four. Precocious. And a prude.

"Shut it Eve," Sue Ellen, her mother, scolded. She reached for a kitchen towel to staunch the flow of blood.

"Mommy? Grandma says you've got the mouth of a sailor. But I told her I didn't think you were ever in the Navy. That was Papa. Right, Mommy?"

Sue Ellen squeezed hard against the blood soaked cloth and lifted the faucet with the back of her hand. Her eyes closed against the pain, and she bit her bottom lip in an attempt to quell her rising anger.

T H E E N D

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