FictionAndrocles & Mars
I can feel my molecules. My fingers clench and press on the opposite hand’s knuckles, wrenching, small strands of sinew click back and forth, my hands…
FictionThe Man Speaks
He lived in the top story of a very tall house on an even higher hill far above a little village which appeared as…
FictionThe Cure
Don’t ask me why I thought this would work. It seemed as plausible as any of the other “cures” I’ve tried since the diagnosis.…
FictionThe Interview
This apartment is noisy. Have there always been so many sirens, so many cars, so many bubbling lights? Where on earth is everybody going?…
Fiction, PoetryMagnets of Faith and Knowing
If my mind truly is broke, at least I’m the only one holding the pieces. That’s a rare claim around here, owning something outright. My own…
FictionVery Best Mother
Dear Imaginary Daughter, You will be a horrible mother. I will inform you when you’re thirteen, the ripe age for making babies, because you’re…
FictionBereaved
My son Silas’s grief came as sleepwalking. It also came as nosebleeds. Fine one minute and the next screaming under a faucet of blood.…
FictionLast Word Dressed in a Gray Suit
We, the children, left our long shadows of childhood behind like rain-faded chalk on the sidewalk. The cement became root-buckled and uneven as we…
FictionBULLSHIT INSURANCE
https://youtu.be/xNhhgtZv5sk?si=FuDIeQbOzZSygXdw I went nuts in 2017. Had some kinda bullshit insurance with bold lettering on the card that read Includes Dental! It had a picture…
FictionWe Drove to LA from Phoenix in 1965 to Buy French Fries
Both of us had taken our parent’s cars for joyrides a handful of times before we were old enough to drive. We helped each…
FictionWatercolour Lake
I flung out of the loose cottage and stood on the ragged path the door beating shut behind me. There was a birch forest…
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