Short Story
Dog Bites Man, New Jersey, 1884
I had been unquestioningly loyal to Himself even after he killed my mother.
HappyMart
He says it is getting serious. And I believe him. I cannot see him from where I am sitting on the bus. The only glimpse I caught of him was through the front window I am facing as I watched him, on his phone, half run the last few steps to the door. And then […]
Griffin
“She’d been able to handle Alan, to contain everything, but after seeing Erin in the hospital, he’d unraveled like never before.”
Delilah
Delilah Singer and her husband and her daughter moved to the neighborhood that all families wanted to move to, but they moved into the wrong house. It was the last one on the corner of the street that led to the grocery store and to the movie theater—the one that everyone had to pass on […]
Fugitives From Memory
FUGITIVES FROM MEMORY The sun had been up a mere half hour but it was already too hot for the old woman. Where the shopping bag hung over her arm a line of sweat had formed, and the veins in her legs were swelling. Across the desolate parking lot toward Shop ’n Save she limped, […]
Larger Than the Sea
Look, Seo-Yun said, and went to the girl. This is why you must run.
The Cowboy
The cowboy walked through the hostile, lava landscape. There was a man here he needed to kill. There he was: running away. The cowboy pulled out his antique gun and blasted the man’s ankle off. “P-p-please don’t kill me,” said the man as he lay next to a pool of lava. The cowboy spat a […]