Convergence

NY Dispatch Day 175: A flash fiction interlude. A version of “Convergence” was included in The Silent Hustler.

Ryan stares through the windshield as lightning chases itself across the sky. He prepares for thunder but none comes, only the playful flashing in the sky his grandmother said was God taking a picture. The boy blows smoke against the glass and watches it snake out the passenger’s side window, catch in the wind and join the cosmos.

“Do you think she’ll know?” he asks David, the boy who l...