2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight by Cecilia Regan (a Short Story Contest entry)

 

In her right hand she held a scissors. In her left, a big chunk of hair.

“Oona, what did you do?” the Dad asked his 3 year old daughter.

“Nothing!” she innocently replied.

“Did you cut your hair?”

“No, the lady did it.”

“What lady?”

She shrugged her shoulders and smiled coyly.

“Does my hair look pretty now?”

“YES!”

.....He had been smitten since the the day she was born!