GAVIN AND MERLE ARE ENGAGED IN A TURF WAR
over the parking lot of Aldi’s. They bustle to snag unattended shopping carts, return them to the carousel, accept the…
Fire
I’m in Flamineo’s trailer when we hear the ringmaster yelling that the fire-eater left to marry his high school sweetheart. …
The Eighth Silo
The sugar beet factory across the street from my house exploded when I was eight. It flamed out in a…
Bird Resuscitation
You stuff chunks of a frozen bird into your pockets. Outside, the world is spinning. A homeless man asks you…
In Which Sophie and I Clear a Forest
The crab apples had disappeared from Sophie’s grove across the street last week, but I didn’t notice until Sophie got…
And This Is How It Ended
The End Me at his door, trying to convince him I was a good person. But I wasn’t a good…
Numbers
Nationwide that year, 128 officers were killed in the line of duty. My father is number 87 in the official report,…
The I.C.’s
They were everywhere: the I.C.’s. You couldn’t spit without hitting one. You tripped over them in the street, on the…
Origami
It is impossible to fold the same piece of paper seven times. 1. You wrote inside the lines. Your textbooks…
Waving Tassels
Plan to Free The dog ate the turkey. Then killed all the village swans, piled the white corpses at the…
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