Jimmy could jumpstart a jalopy. Kara drove like Mario Andretti. But when she touched that fuzzy steering wheel, she stopped cold. “Damn. It’s Dad’s car!”

Kathryn Silver-Hajo

is a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best American Food Writing. “The Sweet Softness of Dates” was selected for the 2023 Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Her work appears in Atticus Review, Craft Literary, Emerge Literary, Ghost Parachute, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, Ruby Literary, and other lovely journals. Kathryn’s debut flash collection, Wolfsong, was published in May 2023 (ELJ Editions), and her young adult novel, Roots of The Banyan Tree, was released by FlowerSong Press in December 2023.

Author’s website: https://www.kathrynsilverhajo.com/