[Flash Fiction] The River That Runs Backward

Title: The River That Runs Backward
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 93 words.
Notes: You can find more of my free fiction here.

The river does not spill toward the sea—it runs backward, silver as a knife’s edge, cutting through time itself.

A man kneels at the bank, fingers trembling as he lets the letter go. A love unsaid, a sorrow unburied, a choice too late. The ink bleeds into the current, but the words remain. The river carries them backward.

In the village, his wife wakes with ink-stained fingers. The taste of his name lingers on her tongue, and she remembers—not what was, but what could still be.

The river does not forget.