Thursday, February 1, 2024: Leah Mueller's "The Other Passenger"
Leah Mueller's work appears in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Citron Review, The Spectacle, New Flash Fiction Review, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She is a 2022 nominee for both Pushcart and Best of the Net. Leah's flash piece, "Land of Eternal Thirst" appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions. Her two newest books are The Failure of Photography (Garden Party Press, 2023), and Widow's Fire (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Website: http://www.leahmueller.org. You don’t like taking the last ferry home to the island. But you whooped it up in Seattle at the Blue Moon tavern, so you don’t have much choice. If you fail to catch the boat, you’ll need to take a drunken nap on the dock, car windows rolled up against the rain. The final ferry leaves at 2:00 AM, and the next doesn’t run until 5:10. You’ve missed that damn boat before. Longest three hours you ever spent in one place. You reach the ferry with seconds to spare. The s...