The sun peered over his shoulder as he shuffled downhill toward me. I jogged in place, frowning as my sweat cooled. He’d slap one foot down, then drag the other after it, and filled the shrinking gap between us with the smell of beery vomit. A filthy palm rose in a sluggish high-five, but I ducked underneath it and was gone.
On my return lap, a crowd blocked the path, clustered around a face-down figure. I tried to push through but was slowed by the bright orange smell of fresh hangover piss.
Then I saw the screwdriver handle sticking out of his back.
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Read – Snow – A Flash Fiction by Pelekani Lwenje, Zambia
Oluseyi Onabanjo currently lives in New York City with his wife, as do their two grown children. Oluseyi qualified as an engineer from the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria in the mid-1980s. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School in the City of New York and an MA (with distinction) in creative writing from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Oluseyi has had stories published in the Potomac Book Review and Rock and a Hard Place magazine. He recently completed an 85,000-word fantasy novel, which he plans to publish in 2024.
