Fiction
The Painless Euthanasia Roller Coaster
I’m the one about to die, and he’s the one crying?
the thorns of rosslyn
there is the hope that the wind will hold. on the bus, stiff necks craning, oranged windows framing the sky. thick pigeons squat unceremoniously, my legs numb from the climb. a brokenhut in chrome, this is the picture to send back. falling in line, i pay a first world amount for a third world desire. […]
If We Dig Graves For Them There Will Be None Left For Us
What does a town do after bodies wash up on the beach?
The Snake as Big as Their House
She loved snakes, but this one was a motherfucker.
The Story Of The Backward-Knee Bird
On the day the Lord created birds he gave them all the gift of flight but he also gave them other characteristics and anatomical distinctions that, in his wisdom, would help them on their journey. But birds, not unlike the flightless species they share the world with, often failed to see the goodness in God’s […]
Hopscotch and Hellfire
“A red dot blossoms on the screen. Eric presses the trigger on the joystick and his hand tremors. The countdown begins.”
Between the Pages
“We had no faces and no names in the margins—no facts that could be traced to the world outside the one we had built together.”
Notes on My Wife
Notes on My Wife I was working in Shanghai when I met my wife. It was an app: Expat, which connected Americans abroad to other Americans. Like most inexperienced Americans, she was an English teacher, not at a regular Chinese school, but at a school for Taiwanese children. Most American teachers were men looking for […]
Self-Defense in a World of Bots
Being attacked by a human man nowadays seems quaint.