Glass Bottle Dancer

Celeste Rita Baker Lightspeed 119 2020

ShortStory 5,683 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources

Approaching 50, Mabel decides to become a glass bottle dancer. She tries to hide it from her family, but the local cockroaches notice it for sure when she gathers up their bottles, and they’ve got dreams too.

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