A pair of eyeballs discovered in the Florida Everglades were returned to a Suffolk County man who’d lost them some five months prior in a near-fatal robbery. The stolen eyeballs contained images of his attacker’s subsequent whereabouts: riverboat casinos, high-end hotels, daredevil pursuits…

…the snapping jaws of a fourteen-foot alligator.

Michelle Wilson’s words have appeared in Potato Soup Journal’s Best of 2021 Anthology, Rejection Letters, Maudlin House, Litro Magazine, The Drabble, 50-Word Stories, Literally Stories, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, among others. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida.