by Liz deBeer
Your list says eggs, bread, bananas, milk, but you’ve stopped at the grocery store’s freezer section, grasping a carton of Breyer’s peach ice cream with real peach pieces, then cradling it in your arms like a frosty doll. You’re blinking back tears and pushing down sobs because your mother’s dead and can’t eat her favorite dessert anymore.
You consider buying it anyway, a cold tribute to Mom.
But you prefer chocolate – not peach. So you scrape a heart shape on the icy lid, return the carton to the shelf, then press both hands against the freezer door, sealing it shut.
Liz deBeer is a teacher and writer with Project Write Now, a writing cooperative. Her flash has appeared in BULL, Fictive Dream, Bending Genres and others. A volunteer reader for Flash Fiction Magazine, her debut chapbook Farewell to Emptiness will be published in April 2026 at ThirtyWest.com. Follow Liz at http://www.ldebeerwriter.com or @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social
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