This 100-word story won an honorable mention in the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Contest 2021. It will be published in the NFFD anthology, 2021
Adverb
I shouldn’t use adverbs but how do I describe the way the phone slid from my hands, the way I lifted the covers, the way I slumped in the bathroom, the way I poured wheat flour into a mixing bowl, the way my knuckles kneaded the dough, the way my fingers rolled out discs, the way the flame puffed them up, the way I counted out a hundred kidney beans, the way I recited the kalimah on each legume, the way my hands declined the video call I expected before she was taken for burial, without using “slowly.”
beautiful!!
Is this a zoom burial?
And is counting beans and reading the kalimah a ritual? Do share.