FICTION

The New Version

Flash fiction about endings and beginnings

Siobhan Adcock
Human Parts
Published in
2 min readJun 16, 2021

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When it was all over they studied how it started. When it was all over they rearranged their calendars. When it was all over they kept the pets they’d adopted, but allowed their closets to fall back into disarray. When it was all over they had new leaders, new songs, new science, but old habits, old hatreds. When it was all…

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Siobhan Adcock
Human Parts

Siobhan Adcock is the author of two novels, The Completionist and The Barter, as well as essays in Ms., Salon, Slate, and McSweeneys. siobhanadcock.com