Daily story, March 28, 2025

Change came all at once. Her mother stopped criticising and her father started talking to her. She received appreciative emails from her boss. Drivers were calm and thoughtful and generous. Junk mail stopped arriving. Men came to her street and fixed the drains and the potholes and cleaned up the litter. No more was dropped. The chocolate biscuits her grandmother always used to have reappeared in the shops. For a week, she was suspicious. For a month, she was happy. Than everything went back to normal.