Tag: sad

  • Vine Leaves Press: Wishbone

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    I needed new chopsticks – we’d broken them playing chopsticks wishbone. We pulled wrong, pulled too hard, and mine snapped in the center. Splintered. I asked you about your wish. You put your piece down slowly, quietly picked up your spoon, and dipped it in egg drop soup. The above micro story was published by…

  • Fictive Dream: The Almost

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    The Almost: a school bus driver passes the early morning hours in rural Florida reading her favorite romance novel while idling in her bus before the kids show up. As the sensual language of the book, “Heather’s Rake,” provides her with an escape from the mundane, she finds comfort in the tension and anticipation of…

  • Heavy Feather Review: Everything Got Worse (the story.)

    Heavy Feather Review: Everything Got Worse (the story.)

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    Everything Got Worse: a 1990s-era supernatural tale of rural sprawl and eco-displacement told from the perspective of a kid who got eaten by a gator and his mother who will never find out why he died. Published September 2024 in Heavy Feather Review’s Haunted Passages collection. Direct link to the story. Aaaaaaaaand a taste: The…