Flash Fiction: After Lorenzo
© Francesco Pizzo
Image by Francesco Pizzo
Written by Emma Elizabeth Mathes
Photo Edited by Lucia Luzzani and Yanting Chen
When her husband died, certain things had to change. She started stretching daily, making sure to go on at least three walks a day. She kept herself as busy and as agile as an 80-year-old could be.
The most remarkable change was the firearm. Andrea had been a woman who enjoyed claiming the delicate side of femininity; she enjoyed dressing in fine fabrics, and applying perfume to her wrist, then behind her ears. Less than three months after Lorenzo’s death, and she had exchanged the lipsticks in her purse for a silver pistol. It was time that she protected herself.
