Size / / /

I am the answer in Trivial Pursuit,

the first interesting prime,

and the establishment of pattern.

Perfectly round.

Zoftig.

Never passing on dessert.

I am also:

First loser to the first loser.

My ribbon? The color of piss.

And the quick hump

before four.




HelenaBell Helena Bell is a writer and tax accountant living in Chattanooga, TN. Her fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and The Indiana Review. Instead of cats she collects graduate degrees and currently has MFAs in Fiction and Poetry as well as a JD, LLM, and MAC. You can find her at helbell.com.
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