Short-a-Day: Preeta Samarasan's "Birch Memorial"
Originally published in A Public Space, No. 6, 2008. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 100.Hot-hot, sweet-sweet. That's all they knew. Lawyer Sivalingam whose fat wife lay dying--that time we all didn't know, but now we do, yah?--in her private-hospital bed while he winked and drooled at me. Lawyer Srirangam whose bald head sparkled like a satellite dish in the sun, just put your TV underneath his backside…