Ironing Out the Creases and Bearing Witness in Flash Boulevard
Flash Fiction by Diane Gottlieb
Ironing Out the Creases
Friday mornings before Joe went to school and after his father left for work, his mother would start the wash. She would bundle the clothes into the baskets and Joe would help her carry them to the elevator of their WWII brick building. He’d press the button for the basement, where the laundry machines lived.