In the bedroom lay silence, motionless, heavy as the sun, dark as a shadow on the moon.

Bent by space and time, her faint light flickered far away.

“Are you awake?”

Saying nothing, she told me everything, then rolled over and disappeared into the dark matter that was our marriage.

Peter is from Kentucky and now lives in California. For him there’s no difference between the world we see and the one that exists in our heads. His work has appeared in The Potato Soup Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Sandy River Review, CommuterLit, and Flash Boulevard among others. See more at claritywithaview.com.