Short Story Sunday. Week 4.
Jan 24, 2021
Four Days
He got to the top of the stairs before realising he’d have to go back down, refill his bottle with water, and walk up again. It had been four days since the inauguration of Biden and Harris and a young poet named Amanda filled everyone’s hearts with hope. Relief swept across the world in millions of emotional internet posts. Each day had been exhausting; as if each disturbing year of the previous president’s reign of juvenile terror had finally been allowed to dissipate into the past.
