Short Story
Pinned
“I didn’t even realize the sun had already set,” I said, turning on a light for Herrick. He awoke with a jerk. “Time to eat.”
An Old Hope
In previous pages of my journal, what I had remembered of the poem she’d shared with me, I jotted down.
Alarm
Our Prevenir wristwatch alarms went off, the sound like a flock of robotic seagulls. One pill, every fifteen minutes, for twelve hours of each day.
People Like Them
It would never be said that Gloribel wasn’t the first, or the last, to swallow what wasn’t real.
Two Mothers and a Tara
Usually, Tara’s mother socializes. I stand at a distance, holding Tara in my arms.
Gentle Cheater
The slip taped to his locker at the post office was an obscene shade of rose—a private pink that called to mind the very thing that had gotten him in trouble in the first place.
Theory of Knowledge
An example of the just-world phenomenon: If anyone found out, they would think I deserved it. When it’s the girl who gets hurt, they always do.
The Dreams that Float Above Our Heads
When Lilith and Gerald were married, it was because they should be.
Cipher
2-Down: ______ Stewart, queer actress you feel like you should be attracted to but aren’t.