COLLATERAL DAMAGE
by Jayne Martin
Featured on Life As Activism

Cars, packed together like cattle in a feed lot, belching noxious gases into a sky already brown with grief, circle the globe like a noose. People desperate to reach anywhere-but-here find themselves turned away again and again. Wile E Coyote continues to run down the highway, smashing into a tunnel that does not exist.  Children no longer laugh at his antics.

Jayne Martin is the winner of Vestal Review’s 2016 VERA award for flash fiction. Her work has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Midwestern Gothic, Literary Orphans, F(r)iction, Five2One, Blink Inc, Spelk, 100-Word Story, Flash Frontier, Yellow Chair Review, Connotation Press and Hippocampus.  She is the author of “Suitable for Giving: A Collection of Wit with a Side of Wry.”  Find her on Twitter @Jayne_Martin.