The boy blinks up at the man, cheek stinging. He turns away from the rattling dice, already inventing excuses his mother will not believe.
Chris Cole lives in Canberra. Loves include short form literature, xc skiing, crepes cooked JUST right, & staring at the night sky.
She said she would teach him to change a diaper after recovering. But now he’ll have to figure it out alone, along with everything else.
M.G. Juelle is a Creative Writing student at Florida International University that likes to keep it short and sweet.
Democracy creates fools, who make other fools rule them. Ultimately it fails… we assume. Please, overlord, support more excavations.
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“As I grow older,” he told the young man, “I forget things. Like why I ever got married.”
“Me,” the young man reminded him.
David Galef is just another form of the author.