One night in December
I stumbled drunk past God
God sat on the northern line
on a blue seat lined with sky
blue ring round her mouth
all that sour
She was, after all this time,
just a fourteen year old girl
neck strained from watching a meteor shower
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Adara Schwartz is a fiction writer and poet from London, with work appearing in Oddball Magazine and Flash Fiction Magazine. Her short story, Praying to the Aliens, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2024. A graduate of Curtis Brown Creative’s selective novel writing course, she is currently querying her first novel. She runs the Substack newsletter Deep Dream, publishing prose and flash fiction. She lives and works in London.
