I squeeze out the last bit, screw back the top and put the empty tube with the rest in the chest of drawers my parents bought us when we married.
The first one I kept was from the hospital. You hadn’t finished it and nor did I.
I tried a different brand once, but it didn’t taste of you.
Every month I arrange the empty tubes into different patterns. Once, I made a face, it’s eyes stared back at me with tears of discarded toothpaste. Jack says I should toss them all away. He says chuck everything.
Maybe, next month.
During July, August and September The Casket of Fictional Delights will feature the Flash Fiction Summer Collection. There are seven stories in this summer's collection from Susan Carey, Shirley Golden, Alex Reece Abbott, Rosie Canning, Gina Headden and Louise Mangos
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