The Fallen Sparrow by Nina Roselle
He promised her Waldorf salad and solace while helping her with her luggage. He said they would have a platonic symbiosis. She believed him.
Someone reported a body in the trash the next morning. The lead detective cried as he called her family. The newspaper called her “The Fallen Sparrow.”
Nina Roselle lives in North Carolina and is working on a book of short stories.
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