Drive to the market; idle with tilapia and salmon filets. Oogle Merlot. Dream of butter-colored city lights. Vow to act. Buy Budweisers and sodium-saturated TV dinners. Imagine jobs that are $20 an hour or more. Thousands of supermarkets. Drive back to a crumbling cabin. Check your bank statement. Sink into a turd-colored sofa.
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA fiction program. His stories, “Soon,” “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,” “Tales From A Communion Line,” and “Community Time,” have been nominated for Pushcarts. His work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Ariel Chart, among others.