Adrian Fleur

Adrian Fleur is a Minneapolis-based writer, mother of two and perpetual volunteer. She has been shortlisted for the New Millennium Writing Awards and placed as a semi-finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. She is currently working on her novel Zithande, which is set in a remote part of the Eastern Cape in her home country of South Africa, and deals with love, loss, and solidarity among women across class and racial lines.

The Bicycle Crash

Once it was June it was hard to remember the despair of March. The winter was always slightly too long, the dark skies and short days lingering just past what was reasonable for any human to endure. It was a despair which infused all former pleasantries with an unexplainable sourness; you could hardly bother with hellos or how are yous.
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