“Transplant” – A Fine Day Will Burn Through

“Friends,” he said, smiling at me. “Not wanting with anything else. Just sit under the stars as two good people. I’m on my way to get somebody in my life, but I am certain that cannot be because of my supervisor Chef. Double Mikes and Ms. C.S. would have a big roll of fair tickets to remember with that.”

I laughed. David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, I thought under the kitchen’s track-lighting of many little full moons. All those oddities fallen to and foreign on Earth—stuck here. Where else

“Transplant,” A Fine Day Will Burn Through, ©William Auten

“Transplant,” a short story from the collection A Fine Day Will Burn Through, and originally published in Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, is available for free on Patreon. Stop by, sign up, and buy A Fine Day Will Burn Through available May 5.