Nanofictions
by Molly Ritvo
What She Said Before Buying a Tank Top at the Gap
“If I get the black skinny sweater you can’t see the burn from his cigarette on my neck that he gave me when I was giving him head behind the movie theatre, but if I get the red tank top you can.”
Angela, Eating Caesar Salad at 12:10pm, While on the Phone with her Mother
“Ma, I told you, I am not going to keep dating a poet. He plays with words, manipulates them, adds meaning. He tells me I am beyond words, that we exist outside them. But I know I am just another one of his attempts at tragic irony.”
Sheila and Becky, Shopping for a Vibrator
“No, I don’t like the dolphin one. That’s weird to put a dolphin’s nose on a clit.”
“I say, no animals down there.”
“Except for my boyfriend.”