Noticing, Karina says: “We can quit if you don’t wanna.”
“It’s OK.”
My grip tightens. Gently, she taps my arm.
“I feel better today,” she says.
“Wonderful.”
“My dad told me you can only do one thing at a time.”
I repeat: “One thing at a time.”
I glance at her bald head. I’m barely there, seeing the end already, but I hear everything.
“Otherwise you make steaks.”
Steaks. One of us smiles first; message received.
I start over from the beginning.
My eyes drift again — so I tell the story backwards.
Alex Z. Salinas lives in San Antonio, Texas. His full-length poetry collection, WARBLES, Is out now released by Hekate Publishing .
He is poetry editor of the San Antonio Review, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications online.
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