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by Louella Lester
She left him, ran away with an old lover, and when Burgess found her photograph lying on the floor of their now half-empty closet he could have done any number of things. He could have used a green felt marker to draw a viper about to bite her smiling face. Or dropped the photo into a frying pan filled with sizzling oil. Or ripped it to tiny pieces until his fingers bled. Or he could have thrust a pair of scissors into his own bruised and thumping chest. But instead he used them to cut her head out of the photograph in the perfect shape of a heart.
Louella Lester is a writer/photographer in Winnipeg, Canada, author of Glass Bricks (At Bay Press 2021), contributing editor at New Flash Fiction Review, and is included in Best Microfiction 2024. Her writing/photos appear in variety of journals/anthologies.
