During a commercial, I ask you to tell me about nights in the jungle. We are blue and then white and then green—the quick, flickering light of television on bare skin. Rain forest, you say. I like jungle better. I...
Night Vision
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Anna Gates Ha
Anna Gates Ha earned her MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her work, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has appeared in Harpur Palate, The Citron Review, Milk Candy Review, and JMWW, among others. You can find her at www.annagatesha.com and on Twitter @annagatesha.
Before She Knew Her Body Was the River
The pocketknife lies open in the dirt, and the snake—headless, milky-translucent muscle—curls in and out, while the girl watches its rhythm, the way it moves not in defeat but in defiance of her father. Sucker should...