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Over the Moon

August 1, 2018 By Katherine Gleason

Over the Moon

Now it is finally over. For weeks, this is what I’d wished for. An end. This quiet. My heart safely locked away. And yet I feel neither peaceful nor rested. I lie awake on my cot, push peas and carrots around my plate. The fact is I liked the fight on the moon. Even though I was surprised when you swung at me. Dodging your slow-moving arm took more effort and force than I’d imagined, but my feet lifted off, kicking up dust that swirled around your head into a halo. Like the dust, I hung suspended, hovering near you, then slowly touched down. I caught the glint in your eye and wondered, were you somehow joking? I lowered my head and charged, knocking you off balance. I’ll admit I enjoyed watching you fall.

When we boarded our return flight you seemed fine, your usual self, perhaps a trifle sullen. Upon landing, marshals surrounded me, and you grinned that coyote grin, and I knew that I should have let you win. The way I always did. Not because winning is everything to you, but because losing, losing to you, is everything to me.

About Katherine Gleason

Katherine Gleason’s stories have appeared in Cheap Pop, The Drabble, Derelict Lit, Every Day Fiction, Hobart, Juked, Jellyfish Review, and Menacing Hedge. She won first prize in the River Styx/Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest, garnered an honorable mention from Glimmer Train, and has been nominated for a Best of the Net award. Her play, The Toe Incident, won the Christopher Hewitt Award for Drama in 2020.

Artist Credit:

Britney Horton-Baker is a freelance illustrator from Orlando, Florida. Participating in the arts since childhood, she has shown work throughout the central Florida area including Maitland Festival of the Arts, Little Fish Huge Pond, Seminole State College, Jeanine Taylor Gallery, City Arts Factory, Hourglass Brewery, and The Falcon. She is admittedly terrible at social media, but her Instagram can be found @beebubot.

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