Ochre Idyls

Poems, Haiku/Tanka, Short Fictions

They caught sight of themselves in the mirror, and laughed until tears ran down their cheeks, tears like rivers flowing downstream, flooding basements, high school halls. The drowned also caught themselves in mirrors, unable to control the mixed emotions rising from this death in life.

  • Fiction
  • 45 words
  • < 1 min
  • July 04, 2025