Sian M. Jones received an MFA in fiction from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Stonecoast Review and Orca: A Literary Journal, among other publications. In her day job, she writes as clearly as she can about complex code. She occasionally updates jonessian.com.
It was appropriate to laugh. She laughed. He seemed younger than that to her, somehow, and also older. During the first date, when he’d slipped off his hat at one point and turned so his legs extended out from under…
