Author

Autumn Owens

Autumn Owens is a short story author and playwright who has just completed a 49,000 mile journey around the world. Her play, The Day My Hair Turned Pink, is set to be performed later this year. Some of her writing can be found on her family's website FAMtastic4.com which chronicles their travels to 24 countries. "The Day the World Broke" is her first fiction publication.

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The Day the World Broke

We're eating our last meal tonight--a grim Last Supper, except there is no Savior at the table. Everyone is quiet, even Emma, but for once I wish she'd talk. Aunt Nellie pops a bottle of champagne in the backyard as all the adults look on, clapping weakly. Aunt Nellie laughs,…