alone, together

upcoming in Litbreak Magazine. Stay tuned for link!

“She had been an anxious child, the smell of her fear fishlike and attractive to sharks with silky ponytails and Uncrustables in their lunch boxes instead of her mom’s egg salad and babaganoush. 

Her most particular anxiety was that her parents were going to die– she was so afraid of this, she would lie awake at night going through a list of all the ways they might be killed:

car accident

mass shooting

heart attack

brain tumor

robbery gone wrong

murder/suicide

regular murder

regular suicide”