100 days 100 short stories:: story 54

story: A Walk-Through Human Heart

author: Elizabeth McCracken

year: 2017

where: kitchen table, smells of tuna and tomato

note: thinking of thrift store hunting with my mom

a line: “The world had promised a baby (though of course the world broke such promises all the time), and Thea planned to become that uninteresting thing: a doting grandmother.”

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