Fiction

Fiction | Short Story
On to the Next Life

To the girl who got away with a piece of me.

May 4, 2016
Fiction
De-MFA-Oscopy Helps Writers Overcome Harm of Advanced Degree

“I’ll love you even if you forget what a trope is.”

May 4, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
The Position of Mona and Vi

Mona has been lying naked for quite some time now.

May 3, 2016
Fiction
Waiting for a Liver

“I didn’t know jack about pleasing a woman.”

May 3, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
Brew

#StoryADayMay

May 2, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
Monsters of Want

I don’t know what I want. Very rarely do. You would think that would be something primal, innate – inescapable even. Humans are monsters of want. It should have nothing to do with knowing oneself— I should want deeply, concretely. Meaning and other nebulous cognitive cave dwellers can be uncertain: Random particles and combinations forming […]

May 2, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
Broken Wings

#StoryADayMay

May 1, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
Inhaled and Altered by Doreen Ketchens or the Note That Lasts Forever

I was coming out of Pirates Alley and turning onto Royal Street when I heard the note that lasts forever.

May 1, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
A Toe Kiss For Montana

I can tell, she’s ready to give up the natural beauty that she grew up with back in Montana for this. I don’t want her to stay here but I can’t say I’d blame her if she did. The force at her feet is hard to resist. You look out on that shell of salt […]

Apr 27, 2016
Fiction | Short Story
The Legend of Saint Lugo

Once upon a time, there was a faraway land where half the people had great hair and the other half were completely bald. Even the women. The two sides hated each other and fought constantly. They burned each other’s houses to the ground and kidnapped and tortured each other. The situation was really, really bad. […]

Apr 27, 2016