where do people
go when their
bodies are
no longer solid?
some vanish entirely
and refuse
to be found.
others board planes,
levitate into a
different time zone,
and are caught in ether.
after a few months,
they embrace the distance
and forget
the handful of minutes
they spent with you.
their bones exist
in an invisible room,
thousands of
miles away.
Leah Mueller's work appears in Rattle, Best Small Fictions, Certain Age, Writers Resist, The Shallot, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, New Flash Fiction Review, Does It Have Pockets, Outlook Springs, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She has received several nominations for Pushcart and Best of the Net. Her fifteenth book, "Porcelain and Vinyl" was published by Rust Belt Press in 2026. Check out more of her work at substack.com/@leahsnapdragon.