
Fiction
THE PLACE WITH THE RAIN by Tom Laplaige
Oh dear is a fretful tingle. A tingle hatches hungry dread. Roger drops to knees.
Oh dear is a fretful tingle. A tingle hatches hungry dread. Roger drops to knees.
I decided to order the burrito. I pronounced “burrito” wrong. The word fell from me, flabbergasting and impossible.
He’s lying on his back. His useless, hairless legs stay wherever I put them.
What your therapist doesn’t realize, you want to tell him, is that any length of loneliness is too long.
A gust of wind blows me forward. The storm follows me in through the door. The snow swirls at my feet. I laugh like a madman as I slip on the slick tiles.
I am lost in a sky of turbulence and haze—and to be lost is to never be home. Today is the first day of the year; it is also the first year you are not around.