We listen to the hum and buzz of it. The whorl of the hissing black film. The click and clack. We hear a voice we…
The Italian pasta and the ginger seem safe, but the flour and the beans have already been infested with tiny balls that crush between your…
I think about Dawn or CVS brand dish soap. I think “This one?” I think, “Yes, Cottonelle. Yes, clean-feeling ass.” I think, ,about sneezing but…
Until now I have been desperate and young all my life. A whirlpool is spider webbing a ship, and I am on-duty, receiving the distress…
You have no objection, I’m sure, to a nude scene. You can disrobe now if you wish. You can take off each piece of that…
When he’s tired he never sleeps or even closes his eyes. She doesn’t seem to either. Instead, she picks her scabs and skin like bananas,…
Barrett Price hands me the tattered magazine, a scroll mapping out the kingdom of animal souls, Why I Love My American Pit Bull stamped on…
“She won’t wake up,” the neighbor’s roommate said. We left our breakfast on the table, our separate newspaper sections spread open. In the neighbor’s apartment,…
You worked in the library with dreamy books. It was time for an adventure: I hid a gun inside the hollowed-out copy of Moby Dick.
Pretty eyes and smart. Such a funny girl, he thought. Especially when she held the knife against his throat. He could hardly wait until Thursday.