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3/6/10
Prompt: “Baby blue and kick-ass lime green were not good colors for a funeral…” (NaNo)
After looking around the room, Keisha decided that baby blue and kick-ass lime green were not good colors for a funeral. Everyone else in the entire church was wearing black—black slacks, black skirts, black shirts, black pantyhose—the only color in the whole room were the pale pink carnations on the casket, and the obscenely bright colors of Keisha’s outfit.
She sighed awkwardly, wriggling down in her seat to avoid the condemning stares of the other funeral-goers. It didn’t matter to them that Lena had requested that no one wear black to her funeral. It didn’t matter to them that Lena herself had requested that she be dressed in her gold lame pantsuit with her sparkly fuchsia blouse under it. They didn’t care, and Lena’s own children had ignored her last wishes, dressing her instead in a sober ivory dress, and fixing her hair in a perfect coif.
A moment or two of self-recrimination passed, then Keisha sat straight in her seat, her previous embarrassment forgotten. If Lena’s children didn’t care about what she’d requested, then Keisha wouldn’t care what they thought of her. It was Lena’s funeral, and dad-gum it, she would want them to show respect to her personality, not the stiff personalities of her remaining family. And Keisha would be damned if she’d cater to the stuffy old restrictions of the upper crust. She was Lena’s goddaughter, and she would show her the proper respect, baby blue and kick-ass lime green outfits and all.
Total Time: 6 minutes
Word Count: 248
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