“I didn’t shine a light there. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t bring myself to. I only heard it. You and your friends. I started to see why you were thinking like an insect in the last days. I wasn’t disturbing you. I let the flies and worms and maybe even the rats continue on. Just leave me alone! I screamed into the darkness of the concrete pipe before I knelt on the ground and leaned on the concrete top.”
The Central European Short Story Issue goes on with a Czech story from 2016 Magnesia litera-award winning novelist and poet Anna Bolavá, “Setting Free“.
For more of the Central European Short Story Issue go here.
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