Fiction

The Lion Inside

A short story

Photo by Ivan Diaz on Unsplash

He was the loneliest boy in the neighbourhood, or maybe the entire city — maybe the whole world, but he never left the neighbourhood to make the comparison real for the city or the world. It was in his own bubble of worn-down houses, miserable families, and broken lives where he was the best at something — loneliness. It surrounded him like a light grey cloud you see around…