
She grips a cup so hard it breaks and the heads / rise all at once, “She’s here!”
I want to live inside it though: pale birds and fragile light and a novel kind of solitude.
All these familiar but strange things that make up his wife.
I bring the child closer to me and inhale, prepared for the musty smell of old men. It never comes.
There were no windows opened. There were dimmed lights. There were crumbs beneath the table.
That’s one thing I’ll say about the aliens: they really appreciate a good bowl of ramen.
They have many lives, as all apparitions do, and don’t mind sparing a few
When I left, I stretched far enough away that any tethers I had severed. Now a place exists without me.
I killed my old self to see if I would finally return home to myself.
She had a dream the night before about catching a pig, which her father used to tell her was a prelude for great fortune.
I feel him taking my hands in his and kissing them every time he saw me.
Fourteen flash fiction stories on the places and people that stay with us
I felt no joy out there, not close to the joy I felt in Daiso.
They have many lives, as all apparitions do, and don’t mind sparing a few
I want to live inside it though: pale birds and fragile light and a novel kind of solitude.
When I left, I stretched far enough away that any tethers I had severed. Now a place exists without me.
All these familiar but strange things that make up his wife.
I bring the child closer to me and inhale, prepared for the musty smell of old men. It never comes.
I killed my old self to see if I would finally return home to myself.
She had a dream the night before about catching a pig, which her father used to tell her was a prelude for great fortune.
I feel him taking my hands in his and kissing them every time he saw me.
There were no windows opened. There were dimmed lights. There were crumbs beneath the table.
Fourteen flash fiction stories on the places and people that stay with us
That’s one thing I’ll say about the aliens: they really appreciate a good bowl of ramen.
I felt no joy out there, not close to the joy I felt in Daiso.