Small, Precious Things

Final Girl Bulletin Board, November 2022

Metastellar, May 2023

All William knew of his father was a leather box his mother kept hidden in her underwear drawer with a bunch of teeth inside. Although he never knew for certain, from its first discovery William believed this box had something to do with his father. When his mother was at work, William opened the box and lined the teeth up on her bed, sorting and counting them. Sometimes he’d arrange them largest to smallest, sometimes by depth of stain.

Whenever William asked his mother about his father he received a cold stare, sometimes tears. 

“I told you never to ask about him,” she’d whimper into a tissue…