Category: Fiction

Skeeter Peter

“Woodstock incubates the mosquitoes in the garage, which is uninsulated and hot in the summer. It’s recycling day, and he pours allotments of pond water into empty gallon jugs.”

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Time Piece

What’s said and left unsaid during the morning shift.

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The House Behind Gladewood Street

“I thought about how I used to sleep on Gladewood Street with the passing trains at night. It reminded me of the boy who lived even closer to the tracks than I did, whose name I couldn’t remember.”

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The Poster

Sometimes the world has a way of telling you when you have a calling.

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Michael Sard Was Here

A short story.

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Will Be Gone

In this fiction piece, a daughter navigates her family’s grief and theater production after the death of her brother.

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Arm and a Leg

My little sister has this disease that makes all of her limbs fall off.

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Monticello

The meadow was farther than Turner remembered. In the growing night he was also different than I remembered, also more distant, a little less defined.

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My Sweet Galatea

A fictional author’s delusion creates and clings to the perfect woman.

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Snapshots of a Cyclical Life

“A Persian, an American, a Russian, and a Frenchman walk into a bar—”

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STAY FOR GRANDMA

In a dark kitchen, bread crumbs, ghosts, and gooseberries.

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Banana Man

“He wondered if his body felt cold when she touched him. If she could sense the disconnect of his skin. If she could tell that even with her hands on his chest and her legs between his, they weren’t really touching.”

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