Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
Black, Nick
Nick Black manages a couple of libraries in London. His writing has been published in lit mags including Okay Donkey, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis Zine and Jellyfish Review, and his debut collection 'Positive and Negative' has just been published by Ad Hoc Fiction.