One Last Bite

(Hippocampus Magazine, June 2024)

It starts as a joke. An old man hobbles through the nursing home in the dead of night, stark naked. “Any women want to fuck?” he calls out.

My two brothers and I, his only daughter, snicker when the nursing home relays this about our father. Oh, Dad. At least, I say, he asked for volunteers. We laugh so hard, none of us can speak for several seconds. We don’t know what else to do.

We add it to the dozens of stories we tell about him.