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Birthday Party

Flash Fiction by Denis Bell  φ Art by  Kutay Gulaydin 

A kitchen paved with marble tiles. Granite counters topped with pitchers of Kool-Aid and bowls of Jell-O. An ice cream cake and a stack of paper plates. Looking at the food, Joanne feels a craving in the pit of her stomach. In a room down the hall a home movie is playing. Chasing butterflies on a hot summer afternoon. Collecting snowflakes in…

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Written by Denis Bell. Edited by Behnam Riahi.

The room had become very bright. The two women were standing there, both looked exactly as he remembered them that day on the street in Paris. His mother was pointedly ignoring him, pulling the girl’s hair back and tenderly stroking the birthmark.