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Every Thought and Prayer
Every thought and prayer was answered. Everything reversed. The news crews packed their vans with cameras and microphones, and the…
The Flies
As she kills the flies, Gloria asks for mercy, then sprays an insecticide that sticks to the walls for weeks.…
Splinter
We’re not allowed to leave the yard, even when the other kids are playing in the wooded triangle everyone calls…
The Story You’ll Never Tell
That story you’ll never tell is the house on the street in every Seventies horror movie you devoured in the…
Vermilion Cliffs
Colors baked into a layer cake of rock. A hot and dry May in Arizona. We cannot drink enough water.…
People Present on Carnaby Street on a Saturday Afternoon in Early May
Four murderers, one of them with horn-rimmed glasses. A steady flow of pushchair mothers who divert to left or right…
For a Short Time Only
The summer I babysat the Brady twins, their parents were on the brink of divorce. My parents were on the…
Snagging Blanket
Sundance Lee draped his old snagging blanket around his shoulders. It hadn’t snagged anyone for many years. His legs were…
Fullness
First it was the little porcelain dogs with green glass eyes. Each one in various uniforms. A policeman bulldog, a…
Four
And because the house was filled with comfortable things, you wondered. As your wife slept under the perfect thread count,…
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