Matthew J. Moffett
When Not Enough Is Too Much
On his only day off after thirteen on, home health aide Charles Puttman’s catching up on yard work when his head finally implodes. It’s like a black hole’s opened in his brain, skull cracked and sucked in from inside. Without any higher faculties to stop it, his body takes off walking: down the street, across town, outside the county. Ten hours later, he comes to in a copse outside some stranger’s farm in the darkness, head reinflated but aching, aware only that he’s late for work.
moonless night dividing the stars by zero
About the Author
Matthew Moffett teaches writing and literature at a community college in rural Michigan. He likes to write at the boundary between characters’ inner experiences and outward reality. Recent work has also appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, and bones.