And This One is Full of Rain
The birds only come once a year. Always on my birthday, just as I’m blowing my age into candle smoke…
Lisa Won’t Quit Scuba
You and Lisa tried to save your marriage by taking some community education classes. Intro to Pottery started in March,…
Into the Sink
She slipped her thumb into her mouth, sucked in a heavy swallow of air, shrunk her waist to the size…
Fable
Michelle Dong lived with her father and fourteen cousins in a butter-soft house at the end of the block, the…
Spaghetti Junction
I had been snow-drifting through December, on slow trains and delayed buses, ending each day with a long icy walk…
SOUTHWEST LOOP 820
That summer in Dallas my roommate Tina stole a Penthouse from her father’s stash. We wanted to see why Miss…
You Will Do This
She will look tired. He will look bored. They will sit on the edge of their bed, close enough to…
The Future History of the Arctic
100. Someone has broken into the Global Seed Vault. 99. If you kill an ice bear, you have to tell…
When It Gets Cold in the South, The Youngest Baby Dies
Honey, Mississippi 1949 When it gets cold in the south, mama wakes you up much earlier than she used to,…
Raise the Babies
Goth Nanny The baby sees black eyeliner circling dead eyes that teach skepticism, or something more sinister, a desire to…
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