Fiction
The Festivities of Dying
An old man walking by says, “When you laugh at someone’s pain, you’re dying inside,” and the model calls back, “No one’s in pain here, grandpa.”
Müllerian Mimicry
Three-fourths of this feeling comes from starting over with Crystal again. An unusual fourth comes from the house’s wide windows.
The Healer Woman
“Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown.” – Luke 7:47
How Sadie Regrew Wings
Given her dearth of friends, Sadie did worry that her neighbors, mistaking her for a bird, would shoot her down.
Rain
What did it take to divert poisonous attention? Beauty. Sinful amounts of it.
Skunk Cabbage
Kay had promised Louis that she would stop getting so angry. She agreed with him that it didn’t do any good. But what did?
The Mothers in the Woods
“We owe it to our children. We have to be able to do hard things. Whatever it takes.”
Rolling Blackouts
Social Security sends us checks every month to say sorry about our mom. A thousand sorries for me and a thousand sorries for Vivian, and we accept them all.