Only Time (A Short Story)

by Janet Frishberg

This story was originally published in Day One , a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers. Ray can’t stop thinking back to the time when Daniella was alive. They’d done all the things that couples in love do—like visiting a flea market at dawn, spending the day in bed, and going to a party in matching costumes—until a fatal accident razed their relationship midbloom. Told in part through snapshots of their life together, Only Time is a story about the impact of sudden loss—how it changes the meaning we give past events—and the way we hold on to the person who is gone.

17 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 28, 2016

About the author

Janet Frishberg loves many things, especially writing, used bookstores, eating peas from the pod, and when people give her beautiful music. She’s proud to be a founder of FemSexComm, a community-based workshop in the San Francisco Bay Area. Janet graduated from UC Berkeley, was a 2012 New Leaders Council Fellow, and is a grateful alumna of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She lives in a light-blue room in San Francisco, where she’s currently working on her first book.

Reviews

[Dot Hearn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written and tight story

The author's choice of structure works well, providing a felt movement through time. We are hooked into the story from the opening and we ride the waves of past and present with our narrator.