Joy Mahar is an emergent writer living on the outskirts of Detroit. Her work has appeared in Plainsongs Magazine, Writer’s Digest’s Red Heart/Black Heart, and Eunoia Review. If her garden is blooming, she’s out back.

This Ten Word Story was typed on a manual Triumph DeJUR typewriter, c. 1957. Let’s call her Trudy. Humble and sturdy and oh so beautifully balanced.