Broken pens, Bic lighters, and sticky dimes and pennies floated up through the cushions of the sofa and pinched the thighs of the teenagers who were all suppose...
Lisa Thornton is a writer and nurse. She has work in SmokeLong Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Necessary Fiction, and other magazines. She has been shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction award and the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize. Her stories have been nominated for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Illinois and can be found on Bluesky and Instagram @thorntonforreal.