Goldfish in Coffee Pots Talking Cars

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Luscious

Is that a goldfish in my coffee pot?” Lydia asked. “His name’s Luscious. You know fish have healing powers? Talking to them can extend your…

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Inside

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Outside

The first thing I remember is the sound. The sound of her heartbeat, of blood surging, of fluid swishing into and out of places it…

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Sehr Flash: Fiction Becomes Music

(from “sehr Rasch,” a German tempo marking for very fast music) Good flash makes us think for longer than the time we’re reading it. In…

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Leaning In

They stripped for each other on Skype, and he did a simulated drum cymbals accompaniment with his tongue against his teeth as she tossed her…

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Emily Witnesses the Milk Maid and her Lover

In the slough the rain mists through the fallen trunks. Their bodies together are as water the warm breath of the wind moves over. “You…

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Ants

We’d been shrunk, through a series of mishaps, follies, maybe destined, maybe not. It is hard to tell, and while I think about it too…

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The Horses (November, 1998)

The vet asked if I wanted to see them. I said, “Yes.” So she took me up to the roof. “They’re getting much better,” she…

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In Dreams

Father leaves no footsteps pacing the shuddering wheat fields out- side our home. He could leave me soft gut peeled, mother says. She sneaks me…

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