Lynn Edge
Secondhand Tour
My husband flew with some friends to Key West for a fishing trip. How I longed to go, but at least I made him promise to visit the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum.
The group stayed in a condo a few blocks from where the famous writer once lived. None of the other guys cared about seeing it, so my husband went alone. Even with his bad knees he walked instead of taking a cab.
wooden plaque
shadows of palms
dapple the lettering
So many tourists filled the museum that he took only one photo inside—a bed with an intricately carved headboard. He persevered and followed the line of visitors through the house, but he never showed any interest in reading a Hemingway novel.
close-up
the sheen of a tarpon
between two hands
About the Author
Lynn Edge lives in a small Texas town. She’s written haibun since 2002 and her work has appeared in journals such as contemporary haibun online and Frogpond, as well as in the contemporary haibun anthology series and Best Small Fictions 2024. She’s published two books of haibun with Red Moon Press: Unsaddled (2022) and Then and Now (2025).