Waiting Window for Montblanc

  • Tice Cin

Four brand new Flash Fictions commissioned by TANK and powered by Montblanc. These words by Tice Cin, Caleb Femi, Joanna Biggs and Momtaza Mehri are built outwards from the moment of encounter. Tice's commissioned flash fiction can also be read below: "My dad sometimes drove past my mum’s window. Years forget these things, the waiting. Looking (inside from out). On Lordship Lane, a circumambient peripherisation. Adult at the cashpoint, by the gözleme crouchers, he himself slowed to a crawl. My sisters in booster seats, unlike me. Why has all the traffic stopped? There is an awkward obviousness in the things we can’t avoid. I remove the delusion of chance. Cash in my hand for my meal and my shop. Later I will pay a man on the door and there will be a Dalston basement to dance in, another parent, chimney shimmying in."

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