Alain Kerfs’s fiction has appeared or is upcoming in One Teen Story, Summerset Review, Literally Stories, Flash Fiction and elsewhere. He attended the MFA Creative Writing program at San Francisco State. Born in Brussels, Belgium, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Crazy Mother Love" is in Short Circuit #12, Short Édition's quarterly review.

She ruined my life and all she can think about is wearing khaki. "They make you wear khaki jumpsuits," Mom says. "I look hideous in khaki." Mom, Dad, and I are parked in front of the Federal Correctional Institute where Mom will spend the next fourteen days. In khaki. Because she broke the law.  And ruined my life. A few days ago, I caught Mom standing before a mirror, bracing her shoulders, setting her face into a tight, teeth-baring grimace. "Practicing my don't-mess-with-me face," she told me. It looked ridiculous. "I only did what any mother would do," Mom says, looking at Dad in the drive

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