The Whisky Blot
Journal of Literature, Poetry, and Haiku
I want to die like Mojo Nixon, but not this year. Shutting down the bar, breakfast with friends, then a quick nap that lasts forever. Docked in an anonymous port beside a foreign country, where everyone knows my language. Instead, I struggle with articulation in a tone-deaf land, swallow vitamins, debate that second beer. A phone strapped to my waist counts every step I take, records random movement in a database. Sixty-six is less than a year away. No one dies of overindulgence at ninety. Instead, they perish from immobility, pale eyes tuned to unconsciousness, and I am probably next. Leah Mueller's work appears in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Citron Review, The Spectacle, New Flash Fiction Review, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. Leah appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions and was nominated for the 2024 edition. Her two newest books are "The Failure of Photography" (Garden Party Press, 2023) and "Widow's Fire" (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Website: http://www.leahmueller.org. Comments are closed.
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