The Least of Myself

“The Least of Myself” is a short contemporary fiction by Sylvia Leong published in Pulp Literature Press’s Spring 2023 literary magazine.

Returning to a restaurant to use the bathroom, Claire discovers a woman lying face down at the bottom of the stairs. Unconscious? Dead? Claire doesn’t know because she’s frozen in place, overcome, as her empathy fights to assert itself over her trauma response.