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At the Reading Terminal Fish Market
A colorblind girl looks for her mother. She crawls behind a bucket of fish heads and and scans for the satin shoes with leather straps, the ones she had seen daddy give her as a Halloween present- an orange and black eyesore to most of the shoppers, hoof beats like tiny horses clip-clop-clip-clop-clip-clopping around the live lobster tank, past the Chilean sea bass chunks, scuffing the parquet floor, kicking at the stray that wandered in sniffing gurry, stuck deciding between butterfish and tilapia as her daughter leaps forward to catch the kitten under the table. Benjamin DeVos |
"Venice Beach Ferris Wheel" by Jim and Alex Ross
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Benjamin DeVos lives in Philadelphia, and attends Temple University as a creative writing student. His work is forthcoming in Buffalo Almanack, Bop Dead City, the Newer York, and more.
Jim and Alex Ross are father and son. Jim recently retired after a long career as a public health researcher and is focusing on using his long-neglected right brain. Alex is a nurse and Lieutenant in the United States Public Health Service Corps who recently began his first assignment at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health.
