"Curiosity" by Lori Cramer

Every Tuesday night the guy in the red baseball hat sits alone at a table for two in the café area of the bookstore, focused on the hardcover in his hands—and every Tuesday night Jane promises herself this will be the night she asks him what he’s reading.

Lori Cramer’s short prose has appeared in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, Funny Pearls, MoonPark Review, Sledgehammer Lit, Truffle Magazine, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for Best Microfiction. Links to her writing can be found at https://loricramerfiction.wordpress.com. Twitter: @LCramer29.