Worst Time #34

Brandi Wells
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The apple without the razor blade was her fault. It was an oversight. It came down the line, and she wasn’t concentrating, wasn’t paying attention. It slipped right by her, and afterward all the apples looked like all the other apples. But later one child does not have a bloody mouth; one child can clearly answer questions and assign blame, and she regrets that moment of carelessness.

Brandi Wells is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama and has fiction in McSweeney’s, Hobart, Monkey Bicycle, and Dzanc’s Best of Web. She blogs at http://brandiwells.blogspot.com/.