Poetry | Bingo by Yanita Georgieva
Yanita Georgieva Bingo … I haven’t had a conversation since 2009 The last time I heard two people speak It…
Forgetting a coin for the locker, never bringing his goggles, leaving his shampoo in the showers, Harvey found comfort in the small mishaps of his swim routine. It was their lack of consequence—how these mistakes would not really make anything that much worse. He stroked the puffy scar just above his knee. Three times a week he went to the pool, without fail. Thirty minutes in, the chlorine stung his eyes. Only Harvey could put his life back together—that’s what Craig drilled into him.
‘I think in short stories it’s a lot easier to hear the voice of the writer. The novel meanders. In the short story you are a bit more naked.’
Mariana Enríquez on short stories.
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