Volume 9 Number 2
If you had a red blazer and a red pencil skirt, in twenty years you’d look like a first lady or that woman in The…
Between Coatesville and Paoli alerts come through my iPad and phone. They are from my mother’s account. They’re pictures I’m tagged in. They’re updates. The…
Then without further violence, green shoots break through ground, and the men arrive as usual with their metal detectors. They’ve come for bullets, war coins,…
The first wife liked to run, very fast. Sometimes she sprinted until it made her sick to her stomach, folding over her government- issue shoes…
With living space rapidly commodifying, the other organisms voted to break up with humanity. As the most docile, least pretentious organism, the trees were tasked…
Human numbers grew out of control and the other species grew concerned. Panicked, the animals declared war on us. Every whale was white, every seagull…
The planet was overpopulated and no one was willing to leave, so we came up with a plan to make more space. We pulled Antarctica…
After he kisses me, Frank rubs his lipstick from my mouth with a Handi Wipe. He looks at me from between false eyelashes thick as…
We’re both seventeen and white trash. Horse crazy and rough around the edges. My family is wonderful but I’m a mess. Her family is a…
The cotton candy fiberglass in the walls blew everywhere when dad sledgehammered loose the copper pipes in the trailer for liquor money, motes drifting like…