“Call Me Fickle”

By Kyle Heger

Call Me Fickle

I once thought that flirting

with death was fun. But

now that She has begun

flirting back, I’ve moved

on to playing hard-to-get.

Wrestling with my demons

used to be a risk I gladly

took. It wasn’t until they

started fighting back that

my enthusiasm began

to wane.

Kyle Heger, former managing editor of “Communication World” magazine, lives in Albany, CA. His writing has won a number of awards and has been accepted by 67 publications, including “London Journal of Fiction,” “Nerve Cowboy” and “U.S. 1 Worksheets.”