The Ghost of an Imaginary Friend

100 words by London Dernis

Photo by Josh Eckstein on Unsplash

I remember when she was 3. She handed me the blue crayon and held on to the yellow one so we could color the unicorn together. She put her name right next to mine on the bottom of the page before running it up to her mom to display on the fridge. She looked at me with her pinky out and promised we’d be together forever …