Micro-fiction Collection

Reveal

It was a perfect summer day. Rachel couldn’t contain her excitement as she set the table and placed baby bottle decorations along the walls in pink and blue. She paused for a minute to catch her breath, placing a hand on her enlarged stomach. You’d better be a girl.

The guests filed in and gathered in the backyard for the main event: a black and white checkered box with a huge question mark painted on it. Rachel opened the box, releasing a single balloon that was… green?

Three months later, Rachel delivered a healthy baby boy with bright green skin.

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Prompt: A single balloon
Wordcount: 100 words exactly