Yellow Mama E zine

Sugar

 

by Zvi A. Sesling

 

 

          Her nickname was Sugar because she was sweet. Guys tripped over themselves to get a date because they knew Sugar would never say no, though the three in town who did succeed in getting her to say yes told anyone who would listen that they would be going to dinner one town over and be home late.

           Each time Sugar came out of her little house on Bow Street it was nearly noon after the date and each time the guy she had dated had disappeared. That’s when the speculation began.

           Sugar had murdered them before dinner. But the restaurant owner said they had been there. So, the rumors said she had killed them after dinner. The police, FBI, state police could find no evidence. They questioned her and said she had been taken home at 10 P.M. and her date had driven off. They scoured every inch of road and a hundred yards to the side of the road. They used dogs trained to find living people, and dogs trained to find dead people, infrared sighting equipment on helicopters, and administered lie detector tests on Sugar, but the investigation went sour. The three missing men were never seen. Sugar moved from California to New York. Occasionally she would go on a date to Long Island, but in the big city a missing person was rarely noticed.

 

 

 

          Zvi A. Sesling, Brookline, MA Poet Laureate (2017– 2020), has published poems and flash fiction and won international prizes. A five-time poetry Pushcart Prize nominee, his flash fiction books are Secret Behind The Gate. and Wheels. His story “Chili Man” is Pushcart nominated. MA Sesling’s Selected and New Poetry and his short stories Infidelities are forthcoming. He and his wife Susan J. Dechter live in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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       Kelly Sauvage Moyer is an award-winning poet, photographer and fiber artist, who pursues her muse through New Orleans’s French Quarter. The author of four books, including Hushpuppy and Mother Pomegranate and Other Fairytales for Grown-Ups (Nun Prophet Press), Kelly is currently working on a witchy novella and directing a slew of short films. She is the founding editor of Circle of Salt. 

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