Building sandcastles that might last a morning or a day, even if we wished they could last longer, even if we wished they could last forever.
Sandcastles
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Matthew Roy (he/him) lives in the American Midwest. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in a number of print and online publications, including Merganser Magazine, Twenty-Two Twenty-eight, untethered magazine, and Vast Chasm Magazine, and he is a contributor to So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. He’s querying his first novel and banging away at his second.
Building sandcastles that might last a morning or a day, even if we wished they could last longer, even if we wished they could last forever.