When tourists asked what the “R” in “R. Reeves & Co.” stood for, he’d smile and say, “Repair.”
Quietly mysterious, slightly melancholic Roly Reeves never wanted to be remembered. That’s the first thing everyone gets wrong about him.
The map was enormous — six feet across, unfinished, sprawling. Roly added to it every night after locking the shop. He never showed it to anyone.
No note. No goodbyes. Just the shop left open, a half-fixed ship’s clock ticking on the counter, and the basement door unlocked.
Flash fiction / character portrait
When tourists asked what the “R” in “R. Reeves & Co.” stood for, he’d smile and say, “Repair.”
Quietly mysterious, slightly melancholic Roly Reeves never wanted to be remembered. That’s the first thing everyone gets wrong about him.
The map was enormous — six feet across, unfinished, sprawling. Roly added to it every night after locking the shop. He never showed it to anyone.
No note. No goodbyes. Just the shop left open, a half-fixed ship’s clock ticking on the counter, and the basement door unlocked.
Flash fiction / character portrait