Micro nonfiction by Kevin Browne
Pinnacle
At sixteen I achieve a feat most teenagers can only dream of. I wreck both of my parents’ cars the same day, at the same time. Truth is I’m practicing parallel parking, a lost art I know but considered vital back then. And yep, I misjudge and sideswipe one into the other. My father doesn’t even get angry, just makes me do it again. Getting back on the horse he calls it. He ends up only fixing one of the two cars, though, and we call the other one “Dent.”
Kevin Browne’s micro stories and poetry have been published in MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Kelp Journal, The Metaworker, Pangyrus, Book of Matches, and elsewhere. He can often be found attending blues concerts near his home in southern Wisconsin.
