Worms All

Flash Fiction

Worms All by Jim Latham | Photo by Angel Luciano on Unsplash

Half a worm writhes in lantern light sixty inches below ground level. I stoop to lift the half-body and set it in the grass next to my measuring tape. Maybe that’s a useless gesture. Maybe it’s nothing but one more mistake.

Who knows.

In elementary school, they taught us that both halves of a cut worm can regrow their missing parts. That’s not always true. It depends on…