“Call Me Fickle”

By Kyle Heger

Call Me Fickle

I once thought that flirting

with death was fun. But

now that She has begun

flirting back, I’ve moved

on to playing hard-to-get.

Wrestling with my demons

used to be a risk I gladly

took. It wasn’t until they

started fighting back that

my enthusiasm began

to wane.

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Kyle Heger, former managing editor of “Communication World” magazine, lives in Albany, CA. His writing has won a number of awards and has been accepted by 67 publications, including “London Journal of Fiction,” “Nerve Cowboy” and “U.S. 1 Worksheets.”