She had gone to Central Park to watch the ice skaters. It had been the kind of peaceful morning she couldn't find in her hometown L. A. even with a telescope. But now, as she was leaving the Park, she sensed someone was eyeing and following her. A man with a limp like a hiccup that won't stop. A hiccup attack that gets louder the way this man was getting closer, closer.
As she ran toward an exit, she peered back, saw he had stopped, had clutched his chest in obvious pain.
Now: her turn to rush toward him.
Austin Alexis has published in The Cherry Blossom Review, The Rogue Gallery, The Brownstone Poets Anthology, Red River Review and elsewhere. His chapbook, Lovers and Drag Queens, was published by Poets Wear Prada, and he has read at The Bowery Poetry Club, Cornelia Street Cafe, Back Fence and other venues.
Copyright © 2008 Austin Alexis
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