In Case You Missed It

There was a window when one could grocery shop without a mask. There was a window after my mother stopped chemo when she felt better, gained a few pounds. The color returned to her face. Mom offered to finally share her secret spice cake recipe, and I said, “Not now, I don’t have a pen,” but the truth was, I thought writing it down would be bad luck. There was a window of adequate rainfall; climate change seemed fixable. There was a window, after you finally left your wife, when if you had called me, I would still have come.

 

Kim Magowan is the author of How Far I’ve Come (2022), The Light Source (2019), and Undoing (2018). She is the Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel. Find out more at www.kimmagowan.com.

Photo Credit: Dejan Krsmanovic

9 Responses to “In Case You Missed It”

1. Janos Thanatos says:

   February 23, 2022 at 12:51 am

   Glad to’ve not missed the chance to peer through the window into this inexorable vignette.

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2. Patricia Quintana Bidar says:

   February 12, 2022 at 3:48 pm

   Dynamite.

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3. Patience Mackarness says:

   January 25, 2022 at 9:12 am

   Woo, shivers! Great piece.

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4. Karen Ip says:

   January 16, 2022 at 2:10 am

   Beautiful!

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5. PJ Stephenson says:

   January 7, 2022 at 7:42 am

   Beautiful!

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6. Michelle Wallace says:

   January 6, 2022 at 6:03 pm

   So much expressed in a few words…

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7. Kathryn Reiss says:

   January 5, 2022 at 5:40 pm

   A world of stories in so few words…Astonishing! ❤️

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8. Dee Lorraine says:

   January 5, 2022 at 5:50 am

   I can picture those windows. Well done!

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9. Carrie Kartman says:

   January 5, 2022 at 1:18 am

   Love this!

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