Flash Fiction By Neremiah Grue
The view from my top window felt desolate in the opaque early evening light. Suffocatingly low, pale grey clouds; late, discordantly cheerful bird song; no real energy anywhere, a flat moment in time that, for all I knew, could last into eternity.
I watched with numb fascination as the washerwoman’s line of laundry down in the yard moved slightly back and forth in a cold, lethargic wind. Some items moved about more than others: white shirts swung faster than pants, socks more than underpants. The movement drew me in, my head resting against the dirty window pane of my murky room. Soon the mist from my breath clouded the glass and I took a step back with disappointment and great effort.
I went down into the yard.
As I finally moved away from the pain, I took a last look at that which I was leaving and noticed my brown shoes laces. Unravelling as my feet sporadically jerked, they now swung along with the rest of the laundry and indeed moved in the chill wind the quickest of all.
Huh.
© Neremiah Grue
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