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Allison Baker: A Short Story

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It was a sunny morning and Allison Baker was sitting on her porch with her hands holding on to the sunflower coffee cup. The coffee smelled so fresh it blended with the morning air. As she was drinking her coffee and quietly into to town, Allison was listening to the morning birds in the far off distance tweeting away the wind was blowing silently in the distance.

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