Fiction

(Fiction) Unbridged

A 100-word flash fiction

Hong Kong. Image by Author, © 2015 Owen Schaefer

The street had become a gulf of typhoon water, waist deep. Uncrossable. I didn’t see the old woman slip in. I only saw her climb out half a block upstream from me, one shoe lost, her red handbag floating past my feet. I reached and caught it. She shouted something in angry Cantonese, pointing. Three years, and I still couldn’t understand. Could…