The Last Laugh
The lingering perfume of a million flowers is so thick in the funeral home showroom that invisible rose petals plaster…
True Story
I watch her pocket two Snickers bars while I’m ringing up the guy who always buys a can of Skoal…
Newfoundland
We put our seed in the ground and buried a body, but the land gave us nothing in return for…
Act As If
In the bottom of Zadie’s purse, as she sits in a lightly upholstered chair at the DMV to get her…
Could Die for Just a Wee Lie-Down
Beatriz had been insisting since waking that we go to the house at the top of our road, on the…
The Eulogy Competition
My father tells all three of us to write a eulogy and he’ll decide who gets to deliver theirs at…
To The Tower
There are six of them. No, seven. They cycle out of the tower and into the night, following their headmistress.…
The Pebble and the Witch
Transformation magic is easy. Gold into straw, carriages into pumpkins: the witch had done it a thousand times before. The…
The Desert Sound
When I meet her, I say all the wrong things first. Wind the beautiful. Hair is yours. Meet me nice.…
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