She’s So Nice

by Louella Lester

Always smiling hello, taking an interest in every single person who enters the staffroom. But once they’re seated and sharing opinions, perhaps seeking hers, she flushes flustered, eyes scanning the crowd, searchlights looking to highlight the most popular point of view. Or she’s unable to answer simple questions because she hasn’t really been listening at all, lips frozen in a grin, blank eyes drawn to the door every time it opens. Her body poised to jump from her seat, as though she’s waiting to welcome a long gone mother, a wandering husband, a far flung friend, or to be enough.


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Louella Lester is a writer/photographer in Winnipeg, Canada. Her writing has appeared in Blink Ink, The Odd Magazine, Potato Soup, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Dribble Drabble Review, New Flash Fiction, Cleaver, SoFloPoJo, Emerge Lit, Full House Lit, Flash Flood, and a variety of other journals/anthologies. Her Flash-CNF book, Glass Bricks, is published by At Bay Press. 
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