Cheryl Pappas is the author of the flash fiction collection The Clarity of Hunger, published by word west press (2021). Her work has appeared in Swamp Pink, Wigleaf, Hayden's Ferry Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Chattahoochee Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2023 MacDowell Fellow.
A man with rusty brown hair, a beard, and a plaid shirt has been struggling with something in his mind, so he gets in his truck and drives fast until he gets to the top of a hill and guns it. He’s going all out, and...