When 14-year-old Ivy learns she’s moving, she retreats to her childhood treehouse to work through her complicated feelings about her mom, her dad, and what it means to let go... "Holding Pattern" won 2nd Place, out of 697 entries, in our Eleventh Playground Challenge: A Fiction Short Story Competition. Corrie Haldane is an award-winning short fiction writer whose work appears in numerous online and print publications, including anthologies "Forgetting Something?" and the upcoming Fraidy Cat Quarterly, Vol. 7, as well as online with Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores, The Quiet Ones, Short Edition, and others. She lives in Ontario, Canada, and finds inspiration in nature, bubble baths, and carefully curated playlists. Check out her website, corriehaldane.com and you can read more of the winning stories from our challenges at writersplaygroundllc.com
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