When someone visits my house for the first time, it comes up, usually not right away but it comes up. The last time someone asked about that photograph was different though because she’d been over for whatever reason at least half a dozen times before. While I can’t say for sure if she’d seen it or not, it’d be hard for me to bet against it having not happened at least once. It’s not that it’s hung in a special place or that the frame is enough of something for it to necessitate a comment. No, to be honest, there’s nothing special about it. It’s just a picture of a pair of glasses sitting on a table. However, when this guest in particular asks why that photo is there it gets harder to answer because I can’t lie to her like I can to everyone else because the glasses belong to her. They’re the glasses she left on the table the first time we met.
Geoffrey Miller’s most recent publications are ‘Masks’ (fiction) Metazen, Nov. 2012, ‘Strand’ & ‘It wasn’t broken’ (fiction) Crack the Spine Issue 39, ‘Ascension’ (fiction) Stepping Stone Magazine May 2012, and ‘Manila’ (fiction) Anok Sastra Vol. 6.