Candles
The sun rose over a dismal scene. As he lies there, quiet and unbreathing, it struck me how my brother could even in death, do two things at once. He both did a lot and nothing at all, while blood pooled under him. On one hand, he hurt me. Pierced me. Burnt me to the core. On the other, he simply lay there with the eyes of a fish, absent of any sign of intelligence. The red under him blossomed. Drawing a pair of wings on the kitchen floor. Tomorrow, I think, tomorrow is my birthday. I grin at him then. For I am grateful that he didn’t die on that day.
Jutting from his thorax is half the glint of a blade. The rest is buried within his frame. I look at my hands and ask them why they grabbed the knife. It’d been a normal day. All was normal. So why had they grabbed the handle?
Issa A. Dioume 
a pretty impressive piece with some nice poetic touches. I love flash fiction. I just had a piece published on The Drabble website
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Thank you very much John! Oh what was that piece? Do reference me to it 🙂 I am interested!
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Google ‘The Drabble’; it’s a website for flash fiction and is very popular. Scroll down just a little and you will see my ‘The Very Short Poem’. Enjoy 🙂
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Thank you 🙏 I will have a look 👀 at it 🙂
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