Fiction
Bartending on a Captainless Ship
Captains are always making you think you’re secure and happy and then bam, you’re capsizing with an iceberg in your rearview mirror.
“Causal Connections”
Ceding the head trauma filled lesions That once were seeds planted in my head Struck by a riot’s kisses The violent idealist was telling me Over a meal at his favorite place I shrugged and nodded with a half grin Struggling to keep the food in my mouth At least someone out there understood I […]
Sister Moon
“Maria felt that everything had slowed down and she could finally breathe again. Until the night the moon disappeared.”
Apartment Legend
“Psst, hey! Come here!” said Terrance. Diego rolled over to his stomach and unfurled his arms until he almost touched the spot of sunlight in the distance. The floor was blanketed with fur, but he could feel the warmth absorbed into the hair. “What do you want?” he said, when reaching Terrance’s tank. “It’s almost […]
The Astronaut’s Ego
Focus, this is it. It’s your time. You’re almost there. Three days from now and everyone will see. They’ll know. They can no longer pretend like what you’re doing is not monumental. Game-changing. You’re about the alter the freakin’ world. Or worlds, rather. I’ll be the first to see it all with my own eyes. […]
It Is What It Is
I pretend I don’t see Jim hurling my National Geographic collection, issue by issue, at the entertainment center. I adjust the faux Japanese screen and clear my throat. The magazines whizz by. I hope issue 39, the one with the tiger cubs snuggling on the cover, survives. My art project involves framing photographs of baby […]
The Longest Trial
There were eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty victims, one per day over the course of fifty years.
Can You See Me?
Once you know the details of your lover’s past, what’s going to keep that past unreal? The present is our land to guard, and the past is a force that tries to cross the border.
Girls in Love
Rosie is being followed. Her ex-boyfriend is having a hard time accepting the prefix.