“According to the cosmic microwave background, the universe is expanding at sixty-seven kilometers per second per megaparsec. But measurements using Cepheid variables suggest it’s almost exactly seventy.”

“Dad, I was asking whether you’re actually six feet or five eleven.”

“What I’m saying is… I mean… It depends on who’s asking.”

Greg Hill is a poet and a flash fiction writer in West Hartford, Connecticut. His work has appeared in Barzakh, Grub Street, HAD, NonBinary Review, and elsewhere. He and his wife enjoy the struggle of raising three determined feminists. See more on his website