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Authentic, Real, and Good
The truth is I got hired for my looks and promoted for my flexible standards of truth and that is…
Waving Tassels
Plan to Free The dog ate the turkey. Then killed all the village swans, piled the white corpses at the…
One Long Sting
From the time I learn how to bleed I keep a scab in the fleshy inner curve of my ear.…
Recommended Reading: Ghost Stories
This past weekend, I did a deep dive into flash ghost stories. I leaped into the realm of flash specters…
the sea was there
I don’t know where Mom learned to drive. I don’t know where she learned to hold the wheel firm or…
Sowing
A seed is an escape pod. A plant egg detaches from its mother from the start, Jody says as she…
Recommended Reading: Fables
The Tortoise and the Hare. The Ants nod the Grasshopper. Both are examples of famous fables with the inclusion of…
Nanay Is Mother
Behind the books on her shelves she finds the artifacts of their girlhood, all of them fuzzed with dust: pocket-sized…
Recommended Reading: Fairy Tales
The New Oxford Dictionary defines a fairy tale as a children’s story that includes magical beings and places. I was…
On the Day Meryl Stopped Being Pregnant
The top drawer of the old bureau painted to look new held thirty-six onesies, freshly laundered and folded into tiny…
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