Memento mori: A Collection of Very Short Stories and Prose Poems

Reading Session

My cousin had a secret he couldn't wait to share with me.

I followed him through the hole in the fence, into the new neighbor's backyard.

"Look," he said, pointing at a window on the ground floor, half hidden by the tall grass.

I squinted and inquired: "Is it a bathroom?"

"Look closer," said my cousin. I tried to understand what was going on inside the room. "Can you see her?" He asked me.

"Yes," I shouted.

"Keep your voice down," he ordered me.

I nodded and kept silent, even though hiding my excitement was really hard. A whole new world had just been opened for me. That woman was reading a book in the bathtub. I didn't know we could that!