Flash Fiction: A Saturday Afternoon
© Alexandra Avlonitis
Written by Emma Mathes
You know how a good book can transport you? Well, that’s how Tom felt about National Geographic. Since youth, he’d been obsessed with the happenings of nature, watching ants carry off prizes from a picnic and staring up at birds until the sun nearly blinded his little eyes.
Now, as a full-fledged adult, he prized his NG subscription. Every week, he brought it to the sunny boardwalk and tanned while his imagination took him away. The music in his ears helped cancel out the real world for the sake of the animal world.
He would stay there for hours, until the last world was read and the last page was turned.
