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| Issue 32: | June 2026 |
| Microfiction: | 103 words |
By Tracy Royce
Incursion
—After Salvador Dalí by George Platt Lynes*
We return to the beach house in sand-slappy flip-flops and oil-slathered skin, two middle school gigglers in too-small bikinis. The shower is big enough for both of us, no waiting. Together my friend and I surrender to the soapy stream, shielded by dappled glass panels that conceal all but our shapes. Till her stepfather enters and tosses a live lobster in with us. Falling, scrambling, the creature touches what this man cannot: tender breasts, and lower still, hair. Our squeals are no match for his laughter. Or the lobster, unwitting and unwilling, but still grasping.
*Publisher’s Note:
The photograph Salvador Dalí (1939) is a gelatin silver print with applied pigment by American fashion and commercial photographer George Platt Lynes (1907–1955). Though not on view, the photograph is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; an image is available at The Met online:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/268740
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