VERIFY YOU ARE HUMAN BY MIKE HEPPNER 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 128

She’d work from home online, she could practically keep the same job, and in the afternoon she’d do something creative and restful, like gardening or painting, watercolors.

SIDEWAYS BY ELIZABETH HILL 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 128

Somehow I became ninety-three. No-one warned me. 

THE DVD COLLECTION IN OUR BASEMENT BY NICOLE NUNEZ 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 128

I sat alone watching Sally Field scream about the unfairness of life and death.

By the time I turned 10, I learned to stop asking questions.

ALBUTEROL BY THOMAS DALEY 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 128

I should like to watch the willow bend in soft wind.

I fall into the memory of the fat, dark man snoring on a bench at St Thomas Aquinas’s church in Nice.

MARATHON BY COLE FRANKLIN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 128

No more sorrys, I don’t have the breath and I’m not sorry anyway.