A String of Blues ✓

a writing portfolio
[short story writing 271]

there's a jar of blue pearls on the table. and next to it, some string.
nimble fingers pick them up, and one by one joins them in painful matrimony.
when she is finished, she hangs it around her neck; a haunting string of blues.

[word count: 12,000 - 13,000]
[completed]