Category: Fiction

Modern Love

“We went a year without sleeping with one another. The act of speaking was already intimate enough.”

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This Glass Box

My mother is known for throwing lavish parties and not wearing underwear. We have morning glories that crawl up our living room pillars.

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The Last Accident of a Life

There was a bit of marinara sauce spilled out on the counter in a cluster of islands. Four blotches of red, decreasing in size and arcing away from the stovetop like Hawaii. The sauce was cold and was slowly drying … Read More

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No Angel Knows

“At the top of the platform I turned left. The flat surface of the hemispheric bubble sprawled below. In my memory, the red chairs looked like rock candy.”

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In Too Deep

In a supernatural cafe, a student must keep a promise to a demon before closing for the night.

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Too Evolved

“Is purple the color of evolution?”

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The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

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On Memories, the Olfactory, and Untimely Death

Minutes before death, a writer reflects upon his life in smells.

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Sound and Fury

“how can I cry for someone who doesn’t even know
what’s going on?”

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Sunday Afternoon, April

There is a tiny man in her hair and he is screaming at me. “Hello there!” He is screaming. “Please remove me from this strand of hair!” He is screaming. “This is a terribly inconvenient place for me to be right now!” He is screaming.

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Excerpts from Family History

A short story.

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Fowl Swoop

Fiction; interrogation. Answers slid off the man’s tongue.

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