She offers to shoplift the bull instead, kicking the chipped tadpole under an antique cart. But her kid won’t hear of it.

“GREEN!” he screams. Never mind that she passed her colourblindness on to him, along with her dimpled chin. She pockets the tailless figurine.

Later, she’ll pay for everything.

Adele Gallogly lives and writes in Ontario, Canada. Her work has appeared in the 2025 Bridport Prize Anthology, FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, Six-Sentences, and elsewhere. You can find her on BlueSky.