—remember that time with the family when we all got together and it was wonderful until

it’s so hard now to gather now with all the babies in the AV room

For those who don’t know about HAD, it’s a flash journal with a cult following among writers. Their submission calls are infrequent and random. I was lucky enough to get included with this circular flash, based on a memory of a family reunion. I first saw the circular form used by Sunyi Dean in —good, h/t to Stephen Granade.

Read if you like: Circles, yet another story about memory and how memory itself is a circular thing, ATVs.

Read for free at HAD.

(Thanks to Elena Zhang for giving me a skull and Aaron Burch, head honcho of HAD.)