“Look what I found!” Alan called out. First thing that morning, Alan had burst through the door with supplies from Noreen’s. Zip and I were just waking up, rummaging under the kitchen counter for the steel coffee pot. Alan was...
Read MoreMom goes to bed, and Dad stays up for a while. They tell me to go to bed. I know it shouldn’t be my job to protect us. But if the house catches on fire while I’m asleep, then it’s my fault. I should keep watching.
Read MoreOne Sunday afternoon I drove into the Japanese countryside trying to locate Mikawachi Junior High School from a hand-drawn map with English landmarks. I crossed and re-crossed the same set of train tracks several times before I threw up my hands and declared myself lost.
Read MoreThey go unnoticed overhead
Above the supermarket malls and cities
The bustier was a metallic phosphorescent blue. “Butterfly wings,” I thought, as I fastened the hooks and eyes which closed the back seam. It fit like a second skin.
Read Morei told my children a mask or two is flesh enough to keep your bones out of the fire and i love all of the people you will try and fail to be
Read Morei told my daughter the dark gets cold
Read MoreTogether, without saying a word, we scramble half-way down the hill, and take a path to our left that takes us straight to the wires. We can see the highway a couple hundred yards from us, but there’s no sign of Kreb, Pru, or the car.
Read MoreDean felt he had failed to make a connection with Mehdi. Mehdi was still just a man with a mattress and Dean was weary with the thought that he could not cross the divide that defined the two of them.
Read More(City girl in love again with a ray
of grass precise as a hummingbird’s tongue.)
If you die with one of those—a regret like a tumor deep in your gut—your grave will forever be filled with the sounds of your lamenting.
Read MoreThe cloud-trail bends across a measureless blue ceiling as if it were trying to spell things out, convey to us advance-warning a cosmic wink-of-the-eye jetting through deep blue veins this stoic messenger, biting its tongue lest...
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