Just for a change, Norman stood and waited at a different bus stop this morning. The next stop after his usual one.
Alone, he waited and waited. The bus was late.
Looking down the street, Norman saw his bus. It was stopped and waiting for him at his usual stop.
R.G. Halstead grew up reading old Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines from the late 1950’s and ’60s. The ones with twisty endings.
The path to my school had a shortcut cutting diagonally through a square walkway. I always avoided it, figuring it wasn’t official. Then one day, I saw they’d finally paved it, making the route “real.” Guess I’d been behind the curve—and the crowd—all along, just stubbornly zigzagging away.
Sima Sharifi is linguist and translator, fiction enthusiast, and Vancouver-based author. Her debut novel is currently with the editor, readying for publication.