Ben Black is an Assistant Fiction Editor at AGNI magazine. He holds an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches English and creative writing in the Bay Area. His work has been published in The Southampton Review, New American Writing, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, and The Los Angeles Review.
"Blue" was originally published in The Los Angeles Review. It is now a part of Short Édition's series, The Current.
Originally published in The Los Angeles Review
In the office, she wrote everything on yellow paper: legals pads, while-you-were-outs, carbon copies, and sticky notes. Her eyes, so accustomed to the faded yellow of her workdays, had difficulty adjusting in her home during the evening hours. On her days off, the world looked strange, the color of a dream—she shielded her eyes until she was back in the yellow world. This was where she lived, where she was at peace, so she decorated her house to match her world. She lined the walls with stolen paper from the office. She bought yellow bedsheets. She adjusted the color on the TV. She threw out h
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