fiction

• the early one for twenty-three years i arrived ten minutes early to everything.
• the vending machine the cafeteria is closed by midnight but the vending machines stay lit.
• the other washer the laundromat stays open because the landlord lives upstairs and likes the sound of water.
• the coat that fit the coat was my father’s. he died in october.
• going up the hotel had replaced the elevators in 1978.
• lost and found municipal pool, wentz county. ledger kept by the guard on duty.
• the scoring hand at four in the morning the bakery smells like two things.
• the worn places the kitchen door has a place where my thumb fits to push it.