They found the notebook buried within the bookshelf between two hardbacks. In it, the ideas that their mother could never arrange into an intelligible book. Words stacked upon words, the cursive neat, but heavy.

It could have been a book, they thought.

It should have been a book, they thought.

Ran Walker is a microfictionist and author of over 30 books. The creator of the 100 x 100 micro novel, he teaches creative writing at Hampton University and lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.