Cars wait at the light. You are at the breakfast table in bare feet, wearing Jillian’s robe. A woman in a heavy coat labors onto the bus carrying all her things, a line of riders shuffle behind. Brakes release.
Flash Fiction: Pond
John Greenslade Skewes
Bio:
John Greenslade Skewes is a writer and photographer who lives in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire. He can be found most afternoons, camera in hand, walking the wetlands and forests with his spotted dog. Works have appeared in, The American Journal of Poetry, Into the Void, Ariel Chart, and The Molotov Cocktail, The Folded Word, and other journals.
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