Nonviolence

by Peter Cherches

There was a fly on his nose, sitting on the tip of his nose. There’s a fly on your nose, she told him. “Yes, when I cross my eyes and look down I can see it.” Doesn’t it bother you? “Not in the least,” he said. And the fly flew away.

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Peter Cherches's most recent book is Tracks: Memoirs from a Life with Music (Bamboo Dart Press). His writing has appeared in scores of magazines, anthologies and websites, including Harper’s, Bomb, Semiotext(e), and Fiction International. He has published three volumes of short prose fiction with Pelekinesis since 2013: Lift Your Right Arm, Autobiography Without Words, and Whistler’s Mother’s Son. (Publishers Weekly called him “one of the innovators of the short short story;” it's an honor to have him back.)