fiction – Thistle Thoughts

The Jam Files #6 — “Benchmarked” (Vignette)

Last night I spoonfed a dying man oatmeal. I sponge bathed him even though he was already clean.

Flash fiction published

Microfiction piece published @
A Cornered Gurl

prices paid,
empty pockets
& callused hands

“The miracle wasn’t that the statues were crying;
It was in the amount of people who undoubtedly
believed that they were witnessing one.”

Odd half-smiles
and congratulations
are thrown about
like the farewell rice.