The bartender at Zelda’s, est. 1955, is a time traveler. Eighty-year-old Betty enters the bar at twilight and magically turns 21. She steps out and she’s ancient. She goes back in and orders a martini from the handsome bartender and is intrigued by his questions.
“What do you know about life?”
“Not much, I’m only 21 or am I?”
“Do you have any sense of time?”
“What do you mean?”
“Time in between.”
“I feel strange.”
“Like time standing still?”
“Is this the in between zone?”
“Yes, do you want to come go with me?”
“Not out the front door.”
Nina Welch’s short stories, Green Lizard Lounge, What’s Your Opening Line, and Good to Go, have been published in Literally Stories 2024 Anthology. Her poetry was published in Rats Ass Review, Aaduna Press for National Poetry Month, and Girls on Film and Fandango-8 chapbooks. She graduated, Cum Laude, from the University of Arizona in 2001 majoring in Media Arts. She lives in San Clemente, California and is a contributing writer for the San Clemente Journal.
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