Madison Abbassi is a senior who loves reading everything she can get her hands on. Her favorite authors change all the time, but right now she enjoys Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and Agatha Christie. In her free time, she’s written some fiction stories.

Sunday

she sat on the sun-baked brick patio

and drew a smiling sun in pale yellow chalk.

she stared at it for a while.

its smile turned menacing.

she brushed it into oblivion with her fingertips.