This last cut was so small, such a minor infraction, that alone it might have gone unnoticed. You were in a foreign city and he crossed the street quickly, not picking up your hand, not voicing any concern to hurry, not turning his head to see if you made it.

Corrina Malek’s work has appeared in Bright Flash Literary Review, CafeLit Magazine, and Penstricken. Her short stories have been published in the Ohio Writers’ Association anthologies House of Secrets and Should This Book Be Banned? When she’s not writing or thinking about writing, she spends time with family and rescuing dogs in central Ohio.