
Echoes
So sudden you didn’t have time to put your hair on. So loud your eardrums hurt. Who are these people…
Ghoul
We feed the ghoul behind the elementary school crumbs of bread and throw sticks at it to make it dance.…
Deus Ex Machina
I’m scratching my name in the pew with my car key. I’m daydreaming about what it would be like to…
For Mommy, who is always crying
in her bedroom like a secret, only we can hear it through the door. My big brother, Lou, took off…
Mad
Kat goes missing again, but not really. She’s where she usually is—passed out, pants on backward, in the Wawa parking…
High Summer
Their old landmarks are charred, the ashen sludge slips into her sandals. Find me at our pit, he’d said. Where…
Three Sprigs
1. When planning your garden, be aware that certain herbs are highly invasive, and may overwhelm a garden, choking other…
It Came From the Bottom of the Lake (1954)
The Stuntman Cuts through the water like shears through velvet. Like an arrow through the apple on a little boy’s…
Epidemic
Because Davie Gray is protected by the blood of Jesus and his scripture-spouting pastor daddy, he stays in the classroom…
BASKETBALL: footnote¹
In the footnote: He read Basketball diaries, but he was Latino and he did not wear a shirt titled, Latinidad,…
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