What I Found in the Loneliness

By Tim Frank

The stones bared their teeth and the city bowed in awe. The wind raised its sword and slashed the rotten sky. I found parachutes exploding beneath a doppelgänger sun. But it means nothing to me now: my friends are crawling with the ants.

Tim Frank’s work has been published in Bending Genres, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Maudlin House, The Forge Literary Magazine, New World Writing and elsewhere. He has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and 3x Best of the Net. His debut chapbook is, An Advert Can Be Beautiful in the Right Shade of Death (C22 Press ’24) His sophomore effort is, Delusions to Live By (Alien Buddha Press ’25)