My mother called my father from the airport to tell him she wasn’t coming home, not that night or the next or the next. When he stopped talking over her, when he finally understood what she was saying, he put her on...
Leaving
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Kelly Pedro
Kelly Pedro (she/her) is the winner of the CRAFT Literary Flash Prose Prize and the recipient of the 2024 SmokeLong Fellowship for Emerging Writers. Her fiction has been published in CRAFT, PRISM International, The New Quarterly, Cleaver, Flash Frog, New Flash Fiction Review, JMWW Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction and Room Magazine’s 2022 Fiction Prize. She’s an MFA Candidate at the University of Guelph and lives in Kitchener, on the Haldimand Tract — land that was promised to the Six Nations of the Grand River.