Allie Blum is a Philadelphia-born, New Orleans-based writer at Tulane University, where she received a BA in 2017. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rush, Chaleur Magazine, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Fiction Southeast, and elsewhere.

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.