Fiction

Fiction | Short Story
Up and Out and Gone

They used to launch shuttles from the town, but that was all over now. Space had become derivative and unimportant and old.

Jan 8, 2021
Fiction | Short Story
Support Group

The blisters came two summers ago, after college. The biopsy came back inconclusive, so every month I go back to the office for a check-up.

Jan 8, 2021
Fiction | Short Story
Bring Your Lover to Work Day

We nibble at the sandwiches and make stilted conversation with one another’s better halves. The managers loom in the corner.

Dec 18, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
Self-Contained, Underwater

If she could speak, she would tell me she’s glad my reckoning has arrived.

Dec 11, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
And Another and Another and Another Glass of Rosé

We’re each of us on our third glass of rosé when the Bachelorette sends home the Last Man of Color.

Dec 4, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
Olive Olivia Olive Olive

With the baby came trouble, but not any of the kind the mommy blogs warned Ana about.

Nov 25, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
Professor Anita Baker

She was frightened by the lackadaisical way he displayed his violence, the way America trained her students.

Fiction | Short Story
Project

Maybe it’s strange that I haven’t acknowledged my ex, but how can I after the nails, which are either about me or not about me, and which is worse?

Nov 13, 2020
Fiction | Flash
Before the Cure

He’d seen himself as something different then: greater than he was, more worthy of acclaim.

Nov 13, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
Be Vital! Be Vigorous! Ride the Rollercoaster

Talking about it would make me sound mentally ill, and sounding mentally ill—in this economy?—feels dangerous.

Nov 6, 2020