Small Stories - Olya Stoyanova

She likes to write notes –

“I love you” to her husband,

“I’m thinking of you” to her child,

“Thank you” to her mother.

It’s a little ludicrous actually,

but her loved ones don’t speak about these things,

even pretend

they’ve never discovered anything in their pockets.

Still, she’s been doing this a while –

since the day

she read somewhere

that a woman jumped from the fourteenth floor,

and in her pocket there had been a note

with the words –

“five eggs and a loaf a bread.”

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Olya Stoyanova (born 1977) Bulgaria

Translated by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Source: Diode Vol.6 No.1