Short Fiction: Billy Benjamin

An expat dreams of leaving Finland, and her husband, with her daughter. Then her daughter's favourite toy, Billy Benjamin, goes missing. Read Emily Weedon's stirring tale exclusively on Esoterica.

By Emily Weedon,

She lived in Laaksolahti and hated it. She hated the suburban, fussy strangled feel to the place. Dirt roads, for Crissakes, and a suffocating amount of greenness. Overly polite but distant neighbours. Nothing to do all day but watch her daughter from the vantage of the carpet.

It was too far to take transit just to go have an afternoon p…