When Jerry arrived home, he realized he’d left his life at the office.

This wasn’t the first time he’d realized this, but the realization was more poignant at the moment as he read the note on the refrigerator:

“Took kids with me to mother’s. See you again sometime, I imagine.”

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro Cuban Folkloric music for dance classes and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies. Recent writing in Red Eft, Ink In Thirds, Alba, Corvus, Tower Journal, Uppagus, After the Pause, Spelk, Chrome Baby, Former Cactus and many others. In 2017 he was nominated for both The Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.