Death Potato Casserole

Next, he asks you how your day was, sees that you’re struggling with something, smiles, sits down in the chair you moved your bag from and grabs a potato, a peeler, and helps you for a bit. “Helping mom with dinner?” “Yeah.” “What show is this?” you remember telling him about the show, the odd sci-fi premise of a time travelling girl who got a second chance at her life, but how she was blowing it by being focused on romantic relationships instead of being a better person. You probably mentioned the title but again, years later that doesn’t matter as much as your dad sitting next to you in that chair helping you with a potato.  

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Las Paredes Oyen

Eleanor begins a story about a woman, who is her age. And this woman, like Eleanor, has a secret. Unlike Eleanor’s, the woman’s secret is strange. No one would suspect. When this woman closes her eyes, she grows hummingbird wings, iridescent, too green to believe. At the end of this story, the woman will hold her lighter to the wall and wait. But that’s the end, and it isn’t the end yet.

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