See that bumped up decommissioned work truck from the Murphy’s Glass fleet? The kids are driving it down to the tournament. Lifeguarding nationals, a crew of them on a double overnight. Red trunks, fresh certifications, fragile youth. Stop detecting foreshadowing! Nothing’s going wrong. Just chill till those kids get home.

Evan Harris is the author of The Quit, a satire of the self-help genre. In the past, her short fiction was published in The Iowa Review, Fence, and  The Brooklyn Rail  among other publications. Most currently, her flash fiction has appeared online in Bending Genres, and Fictive Dream.  She writes book reviews for her home town newspaper The East Hampton Star.