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by Meg Pokrass
The night my first period started, my sister and I were watching the movie Harvey, and we laughed. Her hair seemed heavy on her shoulders, a long, thick curtain. I peered through whenever I could to catch a glimpse of her strong cheekbones moving.
Later that night, she told me about an adventure she had with a man until I fell asleep. When I woke up, I snuck into the living room and found her there talking to the cat. The cat was laughing.
Meg Pokrass is the author of Breath and Shadow: Six Sentence Stories (with Robert Scotellaro), First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories(Dzanc Books, 2024) and eight previous collections of flash fiction and two novellas in flash. Her work has been published in three Norton anthologies, including Flash Fiction America, New Micro, and Flash Fiction International; Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50; and hundreds of literary magazines. Meg is the founding editor of Best Microfiction.
