Won't You Be My Neighbour?

by Matt Kingcroft

About the Author: Matt Kingcroft work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Maine Review, Image Journal, The Trumpeter, and elsewhere. He is the author of the chapbook, See the Dog (Hardscrabble Press).

Excerpt

The morning they found Paul’s body, Sarah and I made hashbrown patties in her apartment. They were the kind that came plastic-wrapped in a stack, a frozen accordion of greasy orange disks. Later, when I heard about how Paul’s body was discovered bloated and floating in False Creek, I connected the timelines and realized that just as he was being pulled from the water, Sarah was likely smearing ketchup on her patty like jam on toast. As he was zipped up in a black body bag, Sarah sat back, relaxed, and pointed to her stomach, telling me to look at her food baby. I was laughing, as Paul was likely stacked into an ambulance.

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