Aftermath
After taking me
to see The Blair Witch Project
at fifteen
my father scolded me
in the street
for not respecting
his mental health
following
his divorce
from my mother
years later
the cinema
burnt down
Oblivious
I organised
my own intervention
my family
stared at me
with blank expressions
then talked
about what
a happy child
I had been
Unclaimed
There was
a parcel at work
that no one
collected for
ten days
the courier
took it back
I don’t know
what happened
to the parcel
after that
Oliver Land’s work has appeared in Hobart Pulp, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Expat Press, Apocalypse Confidential, Spectra Poets, and Burial Magazine. He is the author of the novella-in-flash Dissolve and the poetry collection White Light Fades. He serves as the editor of Plague Circus Press.
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