“I get frightened when you go to work,” Coe tells Larry. “I stand at the front door holding the baby, and when you walk across the yard and reach for the truck door, I don’t feel you see us anymore. It’s almost as if we are gone.”
Paul Levine lives in Venice, Florida where the cleanup still goes on from hurricane ian. The Venice Literary Review, his book of about getting older and moving to Florida, is found on Amazon.
In a college speech class, the professor merely said, “Your topic is ‘moving.'” Frozen, I only spoke about going from class to class.
Now, I would have said I scrubbed the floor when we broke up, put my furniture in storage, took one last look. And left.
Paul Levine’s writing has appeared in The Kansas Quarterly, Permafrost, The Berkeley Fiction Review, and The New York Times, among others. His recent memoir, The Venice Literary Review, is available on Amazon and other outlets. He lives in Venice, Florida.