MIR-YASHAR SEYEDBAGHERI - MEMORIES OF YOU

Mir-Yashar is a graduate of Colorado State's MFA program in fiction. The recipient of two Honorable Mentions from Glimmer Train, Mir-Yashar has also had work nominated for The Best Small Fictions. His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Ariel Chart, 50 Word Stories, Agony Opera, and Molecule Lit Mag. He lives in Garden Valley, Idaho.

​ Memories of You

I hand the album to Mama, five years of photographs my sister Nancy and I assembled. I’m seventeen, Nancy twenty-one.
Five years of things Mama missed. I don’t know what I wanted. Love? Explanation?
She smiles, a crooked smile.
“You’ve grown so. Thank you, Nicholas.”
 “Nick is the preferred nomenclature.”
“But I can’t have clutter. Take this, please.”
“Move things.”
     She gives me a look, sea-blue eyes sorrowful.
“Too many expectations.”
Nan and I are living history, discarded. No niche. I grab the album, hurl it, let loose the weight of senseless dreams.
I feel good and like the worst person.

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