Late Afternoon Lecture

Three Microfictions by Deena Lilygren

image courtesy of Flip Bunkens via unsplash

to the hitchhiker who told me I shouldn’t pick up strangers  

First of all, it was the polar vortex and you looked half-dead hunched there on the shoulder like an awkward walrus. You couldn’t even get your thumb out of your pocket. Secondly, you may feel large in your coat and scarf but how tiny you are from a d…