Fiction
A Day With Max
Two sesame seeds are lodged in Tom’s teeth as he eats his bagel on a bench in Union Square park. The cream cheese, which warmed in the sun, smears his lips and mingles with the sweat from his pores. It’s a humid Saturday in June, and Tom desperately needs a reprieve from work. His boss […]
Scribblings
When the scholar began reading between the lines, he was at first shocked by the plaintive simplicity of the hidden messages, then frustrated, then eventually bored as he inscribed them by hand.
Graduation For Parents
Pomp and Circumstance echoes throughout the stadium. Students pile onto the field in their caps and gowns. Getting ready to graduate. Getting ready to get out there. Some seem eager. Some seem bored. Some seem emotional. Lisa and Dave are in the stands, searching for Katie. They do not hold back tears. I can’t believe […]
Flesh Coloured Monsters
I come to you, with my arms stretched open and you peel my skin back from the bone and let the sun barbecue my flesh to a medium rare before you kiss it with your green tongue and tell me I am delicious on the inside and that you want me for yourself in this […]
København
I saw a girl on the street who looked like you. It was the curly hair and the way she concentrated intensely on her camera as she photographed children playing at the Tivoli gardens. Even though I’ve never seen you with a camera. Do you remember the night we made love on my terrace? We […]
What Happens in the Ever After?
Growing up on a steady diet of rom-com movies and romantic novels, I waited for the magical day I turned sixteen. I was convinced that like Liesl Von Trapp in ‘The Sound of Music’, when I was “16 going on 17” I’d meet the love of my life. I would dance with him in the […]
Destiny on Default
I never believed in destiny, because I didn’t want to believe that anything other than I, could control my fate. But these days, I find myself wishing on stars, avoiding walking under ladders and carefully blowing eyelashes. With every wish, I close my eyes and let all my hope gather in the entirety of my […]
The Coolgaardie Gallahs
we don’t like honest, we like to think we’re better than we are.