We Could Be Other People"I wished we could trade places. In the next breath, I didn’t. I didn’t want her in mine. Standing there, tongue-tied and incapacitated by insecurity and incompetence, not knowing how to navigate this."
Fiction
Nicholas Claro
Third-year MFA candidate in fiction at Wichita State University. Editorial Board - Nimrod International Journal. Work in: Cleaver Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Identity Theory, Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y Lit Mag, Necessary Fiction, and others.
Wichita, KS, United States
Selected work (11 publication)
Dust
Fiction
Inventory"My therapist asks me to create a list of people I’ve known who have died. To order their deaths from biggest impact to least and provide some details from when they were alive, or after they weren’t."
Flash fiction
"What Would You Say""Anything else? I tried to think of something else. All I came up with was, Everything’s going to be all right. In the end, I wasn’t sure about this. It was too optimistic."
Flash fiction