At breakfast I am waiting for you to speak, but your nose is in your phone. At lunch you’re in a meeting in your office while I eat a chicken-salad sandwich at the kitchen island. At dinner you flick on the television and fail to hear me say, “I’m leaving.”
Tim Boiteau is a Writers of the Future winner and author of The Nilwere (Grendel Press, 2024).
Last Supper
actually a story about Elijah. pity the scholars missed the bread punchline.
Well done, Tim. The problems of the day wrapped in 50 words.