Andy's Shorts to GA Prompts - 10. Prompt #108

I was sitting in my apartment browsing the newspaper. The TV was on in the background. My lunch was sat next to me getting me cold.

I was watching some nature program about the ocean. There was some new big discovery in the Arctic Ocean – apparently a fish that glows in the dark; some kind of cousin to the bioluminescent dinoflaggelates.

I was surprised when I got to the obituary section; my old university professor had died. She was only forty-seven! God, that’s the same age as my mum.

I remember the first day I saw my professor; she was wearing this hideous red dress, and had a thick layer of plum-coloured lipstick smeared on. She was a feisty woman who could turn your soul as cold as ice-cream just by looking at you. I loved her like a second mum and I’ll miss her deeply; rest in peace Maggie.

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