December 2023
In this issue
Contents
Dance of the Autumn Leaves
I raise my hand as if to slap his left cheek and the boy winces. A tinge of regret travels from my palm up to my headache. Both the boy’s smile and the cat simultaneously fall to the ground.
Packing/Unpacking
Anne is not efficient. The date of the closing is set, and she needs to be out. It is as cruel and simple as that.
Unorthodox
I frown, miraculously suppressing an impulse to laugh. Is my father going crazy? How come I haven’t noticed a sign although we are living, separately, under the same roof?
Hoof
Animals in the area had begun to grow hands, opposable thumbs in fact, while the rest of their bodies remained the same. They’d heard bobcats and coyotes howling off in the distance, maybe on the now mostly abandoned golf course.
Rebecca’s Baby
Then it struck her. “Why, I’ve taken the Lord into my heart. That’s it. I should have realized.”