I am SO stoked to be kicking off The Write-In with my breathless para. It has been a year for me, folks. This CNF might give you a sense of that. 🙏🏾 @natflashfictionday.bsky.social for your amazing hard work putting all of this together. So grateful.
Sumitra Singam
The Write-In: 'You Didn’t Know Any Other Way' by Sumitra Singam #nffd2026
You, an alchemist, undid my bones into atoms, trained them through the fractals of you your rivulets and creeks so I could fill you with my humours so you could claim my essence as your own so you could weight yourself with my gravity so you could feel solid earth under your arched feet so you could feel something alive so you could move and breathe and hope and wish and so you did wish and hope and move and hunt and gather and stuff stolen stones into your interstitium so you sunk into the earth where you met grubs and scurrying chittering things and it rained and became muck and mud and you looked to me to unstick you and the only way I could was to springmelt through you and reconstitute myself atoms molecules mitochondria cells bones ligaments fascia muscle skin so I could see who I was outside you something new something alive something separate and this mud is your mud and I live in the sun, the sea, the sky, the everywhere with my bones and flesh and skin.
