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by Jonathan Cardew
You stand there, framed in green. I know you have a story to attend to. Your shoulders are rounded, your steps light. You don’t even flinch at the bee moping near you. Through the window, you are the stranger I will never know. Paris is for losers.
Jonathan Cardew’s fiction appears in Cincinnati Review, Cream City Review, wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, and others. He is the author of the chapbook, A World Beyond Cardboard (ELJ Editions). He lives in Milwaukee, Wis.
