stalking nicole

Stalking Nicole

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They don’t come together, but arrive outside at the same time, surprised to see each other. Inside, they sit together at a table and a waitress brings them both a beer.

“I didn’t know you were back in the area,” the man says.

“I’m not. I’m just…around for a few days,” she says.

Tom Earles is a student in the MFA program at the University of Maryland, where he has been awarded fellowships and a teaching assistantship. While earning an MA in English from Rutgers-Camden his short fiction was nominated for the AWP Intro Journals Prize. He is prose editor of Sakura Review.