Jan 25, 2018
"The girl takes the egg everywhere. She washes it at school because the water at home does not get hot. She washes it with a toothbrush that her Math teacher threw away. Sometimes, the other students stare at her as she brushes the egg. They gargle and spit in the sink next to hers, and they wonder aloud, 'Why?'"
— Excerpt from Tim Raymond's "The Girl with the Egg," published in SmokeLong Quarterly
Image courtesy of Fernando Mafra.