My sister’s on the phone with Mom.

Nancy paces, eyebrows dancing.

“It’s been two weeks.”

Husky, familiar words rise.

“Tell him yourself.” Nan slams down the phone. Pulls me into a hug.

“Maybe next week.” Her words crack. “Let’s go see The Big Lebowski again.”

I laugh. “Maybe next millennium.”

Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA fiction program. His stories, “Soon,” “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” “Tales From A Communion Line,” and “Community Time,” have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. His work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Ariel Chart, among others.