My date finally arrives. He smiles the perfect smile of a camera-ready man. Someone who likes to have fun. I can’t even remember what it was that made me want to go out with him in the first place.
Sometimes I wonder why I still bother. I attempt to decipher that underlying longing that follows me like a shadow. Is it companionship I seek? Not precisely. I never minded being alone, but I yearn for a connection. I still hope that someone will invite me into their museum’s basement, and we can see the world as it is and not as it appears. I suppose I keep trying because I’m still interested in hidden art.
Zannier Alejandra is a Bolivian writer, living in the United Kingdom. In a past life she was a credit analyst for an international bank but traded in her spreadsheets for more creative pursuits. Her fiction has appeared on Liar’s League and in the dieselpunk anthology Grimm, Grit & Gasoline. Her story The Milliner’s Daughter was published in the first edition of The Quiet Reader.
Very well written. Really enjoyed it 🙂 hope you’re doing well Alejandra!