After you left, a goat took up residence in the left ventricle of my heart. I didn’t know about my little stowaway at first. I thought I simply wished to say “no” more often and while screaming. I thought the quality...
Tiny Little Goat
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Jasmine Sawers
Jasmine Sawers is a Kundiman fellow and Indiana University MFA alum whose work appears in such journals as Ploughshares, SmokeLong Quarterly, Foglifter, and many more. Their flash collection, The Anchored World, was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. They are proud to serve as an associate fiction editor for Fairy Tale Review. Originally from Buffalo, Sawers now lives outside St. Louis.
Self-Portrait as Everything You’re Not
Blonde girls at school seek to become blonder. Blonde girls arrive with new highlights, preening at the way their faces are framed by golden honey. Blonde girls say, “I put sun in,” and blonde girls ooh and ahh. Blonde...