“Yeah, I’m just waiting, figure someone’ll turn up at my door, say they’re my kid.” My date, with his loosely-held Brandy Old-Fashioned, gives me a wry smile, one he probably practiced in front of a mirror. “Bet they’re eighteen by now. That’s when they start looking for you, right?”
Sheesh. What barrel did Abby scrape for this one? I thought he was a friend of hers.
“My parking meter!” Grabbing my clutch, I rise swiftly out of my chair. “Be just a second.”
As I buckle my seatbelt, I wonder how long ‘Papa’ will sit there convinced I am coming back.
Shoshauna Shy’s flash fiction and nonfiction has recently appeared in the public arena courtesy of Ariel Chart International Journal, Five Minutes, Free Flash Fiction, and Blink-Ink. She was one of the ten finalists for the 2021 Fish Flash Fiction Prize, and earned a Notable Story distinction in Brilliant Flash Fiction’s 2022 contest, was long and shortlisted in the Bath Flash Fiction Award anthologies in 2022 and 2023, and shortlisted for the Flash Fiction Contest 2023 Awards conducted by South Shore Review.
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