FREAKY FLASH FRIDAY: Bottom Water by Hannah Saal

The lake took what was given to it—singular sandals, gum wrappers, yesterday’s newspapers, loose change wished off the bridge, forgotten water bottles, breadcrumbs thrown by children for floating ducks, insect corpses dangling from fishing reels, mourned for cell phones, paperbacks soaked and destroyed, balls that flew uncaught—so when she tossed the ring in and watched the diamond plunge beneath the ripples to the bottom water, the lake accepted the offering and held her secret close.

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Hannah Saal is a graduate of Harvard College and The New School’s MFA Creative Writing Program. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Thin Air Magazine, and the 2022 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology, among others. She can be found online at hannahsaal.com. 

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