Six witnesses
called it
“Horrific.”
Sad news
casters
said,
“There’s nothing
more to see, nothing
more to say.”
The image was
first pixelated
and blurred
before
the public learned
its truth.
Legislators
and state leaders
agreed
it was too
difficult
to know
where
to next pose
with their gold.
Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based writer whose work has appeared in Indiana Review, Fence, Booth, Conduit, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. His writing has been featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net. The host of a bi-monthly reading series known as Neon Night Mic, he also recently launched his own indie press known as Piżama Press.