Polishing Imperfection


Polishing Imperfection

by Gabriel Ramirez Acevedo

As published in Tint Journal, Issue Spring 2024, ISSN: 2791-4801


Let me tell you this: I bet you wouldn’t really notice your body was running low on nutrients before you started feeling sick. I learned that from Clara about a year ago.

She was the sixth person at my aunt’s crochet club I had visited that Sunday afternoon, going from house to house trying to make a sale. The scene varied little from one house to the next: a living room decorated with dozens of small ceramic animals; a husband grunting at a TV set in the next room; a low wooden table with a white crochet tablecloth; a steel tray with two giant mugs of strong coffee. And, as in every house, a couple of small, engraved silvers poons on the side, covered in brown rust stains.

I was desperate for Clara to take the bait that day... (continue reading on Tint Journal's website)



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