(Editor's note: The following was submitted in March 2020 as part of the Hampshire Life Short Fiction Contest and was selected as a finalist) Henrietta Ross returned from her late afternoon break with a handful of cookies and a frown. The sweets were unusual for her. The frown, etched into the deepening lines of herContinue reading "Customer Service"
Those Were Some Of The Reasons
The lights flick on and my brain drops out. A numbness envelops and halts all but the most involuntary of bodily functions. This is going to be worse than I thought. The clock. Jesus, the clock. It makes not a sound, but I can sense the ticking, unforgiving in its digital perfection, like a slowContinue reading "Those Were Some Of The Reasons"
By Daniel Malone 