Rat Girl
She calls herself Rat Girl, but she looks like a little Swiss doll. Now in the Chapel, she is singing…
Mary the Obscure
The Marys—mothers, daughters, whores, saints, queens and killers—meet every Thursday afternoon in Riverside Park during the spring and summer months.…
The Rookery
The rookery is disguised as a shed. I keep a lawnmower and a pair of hedge trimmers for the sake…
Fig
For breakfast, Zip and I will eat a rancid jar of olives, a brittle feather from the windowsill, and a…
Everything Will Be Okay in the End
The ghosts have come looking for my maid, but the maid is not here. The maid is out back in…
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…
Day Trader
You’re good at selling words. Every morning you go to the market with the other girls and offer up a…
2021 Best Small Fictions Nominations
Endangered Species by Caroljean Gavin Things Never Stay Warm by María Alejandra Barrios A Too Small Room by Yume Kitasei…
Deaths of the Actor
The actor has died thirty-four times. His first death, a grotesque slow-motion spearing in the midst of battle, was looped…
Sweets From Strangers
When we heard that Mingming’s grandmother was coming to live with her, my sister and I asked our parents endless…
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