account_circle by Steve Young
Steve Young has an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has published fifteen previous short stories including in recent issues of the Saturday Evening Post, The Wild Word, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Woven Tale Press. Two of his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and BASS. Young grew up in Vermont and now lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Website: www.mugwahnews.org

Macro-Fiction

Balloons

Issue No. 266 ~ July, 2019

By seven-thirty, a posse of kids had cut loose the helium balloons. They floated up to the high ceilings and hung belly to belly, their tethers dangling just out of reach.