Flash fiction. If We Were In Another Life, by Melanie Mulrooney. Image: A woman dives into a turbulent black sea, while, like a mirror image, an otter swims up to the surface.

flash: If We Were In Another Life

If We Were In Another Life If we were three-spined sticklebacks, you would light up crimson to warn off other males and I would be honoured and not annoyed, safe instead of smothered, because I’d know you could protect our patch in the stream, and I would follow your proud zig-zag dance through the water […]

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