"If you’re at the county hospital parked in the three-minute pull-out by that new clinic building, and the employee you’re picking up doesn’t come out, you see an opera. Verismo." Flash fiction by Seattle-based writer Valerie Trueblood.
Tag: Seattle fiction
Interloper
In this short story by Matt Briggs, a man living in his Honda Accord appears outside the home of Maureen Hough, a teenager whose father works a blue-collar job and pays a mortgage on a home not far from Pacific Highway South. A timely story as Seattle faces a critical housing crisis it can't ignore.
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"Every day I think I’ve done the wrong thing. It’s an exhausting way to live. One time, I was walking down Cherry Street to get some Thai for dinner, and this white guy in a polo shirt came running toward me. He looked worried. I slipped to the side. Maybe he was trying to catch a bus, I thought. A minute later another white guy in a gray t-shirt came after him with a big smile and a steak knife."