Fiction

Fiction | Short Story
The Housemate

I’m a good housemate. I leave very little trace of myself.

Oct 30, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
We Are the Flare

The house erupted faster than it should, but that’s the trouble with dancing on somebody else’s hurt.

Oct 16, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
A Seller of Luxury Hair Products in a Texas Shopping Mall Recounts the Wealth of Natural Springs in His Home Country

My mother’s favorite spring has water that reflects her beauty more honestly than a front-facing camera.

Oct 9, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
Some Girls

Some women attract deadbeats; others, their fathers. Isn’t it possible, then, for some women to attract gay guys?

Oct 2, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
Music, Night

One didn’t come all this way in the careful study of the instrument to play it safe.

Sep 25, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
An Instrument of the Heart

Though Zya had been too young to recognize it as unusual, she could remember the first time Rania had washed her brain.

Sep 18, 2020
Fiction | Flash
For As Long As Turtles Live

Our relationship might crack as we build two babies, but turtles don’t rush.

Fiction | Short Story
Hyung

They weren’t shaped in the same image he had of the older Korean boys Jacob had not seen since he left, these hyungs who towered over Jacob still.

Sep 4, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
The New Grandma

Good mothers don’t lose composure, she thought, even if an asteroid is heading at them, they don’t loosen screen time limits or miss piano lessons.

Aug 28, 2020
Fiction | Short Story
The Living Structures

Suddenly a heart beat inside its concrete shell. It was a murmur, a light and irregular thing, so faint that I wondered if it was real.

Aug 14, 2020