Amber Alerts, on I-83 heading north ─ an orange-dotted description of a Pontiac or a Sonoma with a …
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She brings cold air and a flurry of dead leaves into the lobby. The gush of heat feels good …
Short Story
T here was no reason for Fancy to hate John, Cameron’s bus-driver boyfriend, but a hate had centralized …
Short Story
ONE LEAGUE OUT FROM LAND Do you go to heaven or hell or just stay in the box? the home health aide mumbled around Nana’s bed. Pulled the top sheet …
Poetry
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(translated from the Polish by Dawid Mobolaji) I was telling you about Mama’s boyfriends – about their smell, …
Short Story
The sophisticated lady sees the small helpless child contained in a steel cylinder. The child’s anxious upturned face is …
Short Story
Before the game I asked my Girl to stop cheering for Doofus Danny, the roided out linebacker all the …
Short Story
Man hurtles himself headfirst at his 15th-floor window, all the unwavering self-hate Man can muster.Window doesn’t shatter, doesn’t shudder, doesn’t waver.Window is no Hollywood pussy break-away glass window.Man is no …
Flash Fiction
It was all a dream.I’m actually a cat.You have a split personality that’s way cooler and more assertive than you and gets all the ladies.The doctor was the injured boy’s …
Flash Fiction
For you Sam Sam calls it this human experiment I ripped off the phrase It features in the opening story of my book Which I sent to Sam Who read …
Poetry
I don’t expect to run into my mother on the Ibiza strip surrounded by drunks and neon lights and …
Flash Fiction
i hunger for the moment of entry for expansion yielding all pretense all carefully constructed indifference to a muted question of permission may? i?
Poetry
Janice learned early in her journalism career–when she still had a career, or access to that grand ladder of …
Short Story
subjugation wait, i can explain -- i used to be feral, chewing raw meat with sugary teeth, sucking on a carcass during sleepless nights, trying to fend off boars and …
Poetry
Leonard and I had laughed hard first, then with trepidation, when Caroline, at five years old and in …
Short Story
Sunny And now the sun appears – an arrogant schoolboy staring through my window – What am I doing? Just looking.
Poetry
Now, with your temporary elopement drawing to an end, every minute spent together was, for both of you, “worth …
Short Story
1793The hickories and black gums done been naked a piece, and Christmas come and went two months past. …
Short Story
There once was a father who tried his hardest to achieve his goal of teaching his son to …
Flash Fiction
Just below the fine white linen tablecloth, on his lap where only she could see it, he held …
Short Story
I like to walk fast and imagine minutes falling away on the other side of whatever journey is unfolding. …
Flash Fiction
I lived in a town where starving girls weaved Paper chains from heartstrings and gum wrappers, Staving off reality with cheap spirits coaxed from older lovers I lived …
Poetry
Peeling oranges with our eyes closed, on a rooftop lidded with stars Moon scrapes away a crescent of the sky and we cut away pounds of Our flesh …
Poetry
Ketamine kisses douse a blazing girl with the sick tang of gasoline, heartthrob, dementia She droops, star splayed and eager in her drowsiness, sped by the rhyme …
Poetry
Other Faces shift in my dreams from us to them and back. They are with me, free in that place: my people, cast out as Other from this …
Poetry