Ashton Russell

Ashton Russell lives and writes in Birmingham, Alabama. Her work has previously been published in Cheap Pop Lit, Literary Orphans, and was a finalist in the Southeast Review’s Worlds Best Short-Short Story contest.

YOU WANT TO HEAR A LOVE STORY by Ashton Russell

He flirted with you at work. You were 16 and he was 23. He would hold his hands behind his back to mimic how you walked away from the server board in the kitchen. Because you were uncomfortable in your own body. Your ass felt too big, the way you walked too bouncy. Sitting at the bar at work eating before the doors opened, he sat down beside you and pushed his hand up your thigh not saying anything. He followed you out to the parking lot up the hill where staff parked. He asked if he could drive your…

Continue Reading...