Sometimes the apartment building stairs turn into a luge track, designed for speed, enabling a drunk man to fly right out through the window next to the main door. Sometimes the apartment building stairs turn into a bed, that almost tricks you into thinking it’s a drunk woman’s coffin, until you see her chest move ever so slightly when you beg her to wake up.
Louella Lester is a writer/photographer in Winnipeg, Canada, author of Glass Bricks, contributing editor at NFFR, and is included in Best Microfiction 2024. Her writing and/or photography recently appears/is forthcoming in: Cleaver, Rawhead, Fictive Dream, Mad Swirl, Does It Have Pockets, SoFloPoJo, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Ink Sweat & Tears, Six Sentences, Odd Magazine, Temple in a City, Switch, Gooseberry Pie, Hoolet’s Nook, Roi Faineant, Dog Throat, Paragraph Planet. FB: @louellalesterwriter IG: @louellalester Bluesky: @louellalester.bsky.social