It was so hot that summer that when Benji hopped from his front porch he found his kickball melted to the driveway. Sighing, he peeled…
The corn bled for a long time. Doctors came. Then priests. The blood never seeped through green. People knew it was bleeding. They swore they…
The alligator was known for its teeth mostly, but by teeth, people meant the whole mouth, but really the jaw, but jaws don’t sell tickets…
Beside the stove we ate an orange. Your fingers peeled the pith in one slender sleeve, and it curled in the palm of your hand….
Something bad has happened upriver, and black tar swims down to them like baby eels. It has claimed the lives of two young swimmers, lovers,…
The smell of linseed through the floorboards made it easy to believe he was still down in his studio. She heard his knives on the…
The new vet’s head is a balloon at the fair, inflating in the fold of the break room door. She shrinks to see me, humming…
Again I lose the soap in the world’s dirtiest bathtub. My mother rests her head on the edge of the tub, her head the only…
You were last seen falling off the face of the planet. The crocuses had just started to bloom. My therapist says I have trouble stringing…
When his parents have gone to sleep, * sneaks out the back door and around to the carport. He opens the trashcan into which he…