I recently published The Left Not Taken on Hobart. It’s a short story inspired by my life in Houston. Thanks to Stephanie Yue Duhem for the edits. Following is another piece of fiction Every night since the night she had her second kid, she woke up screaming, “I think I found it”. She’d then rush out of bed, her husband behind her - tired of this routine but half expecting that she had found something this time. She’d stub her foot against an RC car that her son had left in the middle of their tiny living room, jolting her awareness to, “It might just have been a dream.” Still, she’d soldier on to her destination - usually a kitchen cupboard or the single cramped closet where they stored everything that did not have a place. But whenever she opened the door, all hope deflated. She did not find what was apparent in her dreams.
I think I know this woman