It’s Good to Have You Back by Meg Pokrass
One On the way back from Folsom State Prison, he slumped in the passenger seat of my car, and it was like the world had handed me a bouquet of overdue roses.
MEG POKRASS is the award-winning author of 8 flash fiction, including Spinning to Mars (Blue Light Book Award, 2021), Cellulose Pajamas, and a novella-in-flash, The Loss Detector (Bamboo Dart Press, 2020). Her work has been widely taught and anthologized, and has appeared in over 1,000 literary journals and in 3 Norton anthologies of the flash fiction form: Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton, 2015), New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2018), and Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton & Co., 2023). Meg Pokrass is the Founding Editor of Best Microfiction and Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review. She lives in Inverness Scotland.
One On the way back from Folsom State Prison, he slumped in the passenger seat of my car, and it was like the world had handed me a bouquet of overdue roses.