I Hear You

Nominated for a Best of Net

https://www.darkwinterlit.com/post/i-hear-you-by-collins-aguilar

He brought a gun to the house.

It is a cold and heavy and alien-looking thing that Daniel waves in his left hand–the hand on which he wears his grandfather’s watch– too big for him and sliding down his wrist as he gestures– the cool metal of the timepiece clinking against that of the pistol.

“My father could never wear this watch,” Daniel says. “Because whenever he did, time stopped.”