“Six, please,” the father said to me, as the mother wiped her hand across the child’s forehead to shift his damp hair away from his eyes. The doors closed. The child’s gaze followed them intently, his un-furrowed brow trying a furrow.
Kathryn Chiariello
Kathryn Chiariello is an essayist and fiction writer from Washington, DC. Her work has been published in The Watershed Review, Gargoyle, and The Audacity. Like all DC residents, she lacks voting representation in Congress.