THE CHANGE
Feb 02, 2019
3 minutes
Flash fiction by Christian Butler-Zanetti
Illustration by Daniel Pagan
The boy is changing. Our youngest, he’s at that age. I should have seen it coming. I’ve been dodging the issue, I think. I should have known.
Conversations over breakfast have been getting strained. The boy responds to my remarks with short, guttural sounds and I sit there, trying not to pull a face. He used to speak so well. Now the words slither from his gullet. His lips hang there like dead slugs. He’s lost all control of his
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