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Patterns

Mileva Anastasiadou

I brought a cheese pie home (dad wanted me to study law), and handed it to my boyfriend, because I’m on a diet (because he couldn’t afford to, when he was young), but that cheese pie looks so tasty somebody has to enjoy it, only my boyfriend doesn't want to (only I didn’t want to), he says he'd rather have salad instead (I said I’d rather be an actor instead), and I frown like he's ungrateful (and he frowned like I was ungrateful), because I took the time to fetch it for him and he doesn't appreciate my effort to make him happy (because he did everything for me and I didn’t appreciate his sacrifices), I walk out of the room (he walked out of the room), after I tell him, It's a pity, (after he told me, You’re stupid), when what I actually mean is, Eat what I can't eat, (when what he actually meant was, Do what I can’t do).

Mileva Anastasiadou is a neurologist, from Athens, Greece. A Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions nominated writer, her work has been selected for the Best Microfiction anthology 2024 and Wigleaf Top 50 and can be found in many journals.

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