Melissa Goode’s work has appeared in The Masters Review, CRAFT Literary, The Penn Review, CutBank, Paper Darts, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. She lives in Australia. You can find her here: www.melissagoode.com and at twitter.com/melgoodewriter
The kitchen lightbulb shatters above our heads. The filament burns red and fizzles to nothing. It is an explosion from light to black. We breathe hard in the aftermath, check each other for broken glass and he says to...