There’s the ice cream, there at the back of the freezer. There’s clearly not enough of it. One hundred fifty-seven servings? One hundred fifty- eight?…
Soon after they move into the house, Bill begins finding nails on the floor. At first they’re tiny, and infrequent, so he places them in…
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Nora thinks air and smell are one. You breathe in sweet or sour, musty or moldy or wet-dog or chicken-broth scented. You breathe out your…
A can of gasoline weighted the left side of his body, a scale so familiar to his life, a scale layered over the burr of…
I knew features of the bar before I walked in: the cigarette butts curled on the floor like bird shit, the stalls scrawled in bad…
She flicks the foil to the ground and grips the rickety swing chains, two teenage fists wiping grease up and down in a motion she…
Not the regular kind, but Do-It-Yourself. Out in the middle of Utah or Nevada, somewhere hot and brown and desolate. So dry the water felt…
this test, online, and it’s supposed to tell me when I’ll die. It says: July 25, 2055. Instantly, I wish I’d never taken the test….
On Monday, we drive back from the Kilrush grocery store. Two hundred dollars’ worth of food sits in the trunk, and I’m picturing the meals…