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Iga snips through her penultimate cut of the year. She hmms and nods, absorbing Mrs Rogers’ turkey tribulations. She imagines stuffing butter. Wonders if she should buy festive cat food. Would Tiggy appreciate it? Can Tiggy appreciate?
She senses the windows along the right side of her body. The sun descended over an hour ago. One leg of the electric blue tinsel has fallen from the window. Mrs Rogers wants a pageboy bob.
Iga thinks of her mother and father, drinking schnapps by the fire. What kind of year has it been? her mother asks. Tight, she answers. Straight lines and smiles. Cardstock invites. Mortgage repayments. There’s a relief to it being over, like an uncomfortably warm train journey.
The door opens; the bell clinks. Her next client, her last client, has arrived for his monthly crew cut. He catches her eye and gives her an ‘I know I’m early’ smile. Don’t worry, she feels, and dusts Rogers’ neck with a natural perfectionism. She’s seen hundreds and hundreds of necks.
She fetches the dryer. Runs her fingers between the platinum strands. What does she will for next year? More colour? Indefinite shapes? Perhaps a freedom to her trust. Perhaps just more eccentric pyjamas.
She’d love for the clouds to part and release their gentle, blank breaths. As a child she could always rely on Christmas snow. Each flake perfectly symmetrical, yet each unique.
A stride to the counter to accept the payment, she’s gracious. The crew cut waits underneath the wax. Flashing lights reflect in his iris. The slings under his eyes suggest concentration beyond will. But lower, an assemblage of white flakes, pure and complete, melt into his curved shoulders.
About Eva Hibbs
Eva is a writer, workshop facilitator and PhD researcher living in Brighton. She enjoys writing fiction from unusual perspectives, and collaborating on creative projects tackling social issues. Her fiction has been published in Popshot Magazine, The Irish Literary Review, The Oxford Review of Books, The Oxonian Review, Brittle Star Magazine, Funicular Magazine and Riggwelter Journal.
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