A friend’s dying, brain cancer. Waiting. Witnessing. Why can’t we all pass in our sleep? Meanwhile, he’s going and we’re staying, for now.
Ethel Rohan received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, CA. Her blog is www.straightfromtheheartinmyhip.blogspot.com.
The old man always sits alone, staring at nothing. He was in Bergen-Belsen, they say, but no one will tell you on which side of the fences.
David Tallerman currently lives and writes in Newcastle, England. Most of his stories are longer than this one.
Nanoism is a brand new twitterzine, a Twitter-based magazine for tiny fiction. We hope to begin publishing nanofiction/twitter-fiction/twiction/tweetfic/[other short-fiction-name-du-jour] in April, both at this site and on Twitter using the handle @nanoism.
We’re open for submissions and we pay for stories, so check out the guidelines and send us your best. So follow @nanoism, start writing, and get ready to read.