She was a vibrant creature, full of life and love and lust. Hair all the colours she could find, body pierced to enhance sensation,...

I 1 miss 2 holding 3 your 4 hand 5. 1 Not merely the self, the first-person subject pronoun, but also the collective I, the individual...

This isn’t Notre Dame, the woman behind me hisses at her husband. No, I think defiantly, it’s better. But to honor the stillness in this...

Stan loved it when the neighbourhood cats visited his garden. Tabbies, tortoiseshells, ginger toms – they were all welcome as far as he...

We had agreed to meet by a river beside three boulders. I was to bring a picnic, and he a blanket. I had gone along the road signposted,...

1. One large spyglass. Brass and high-quality leather. Staining and identically formed indentations along the barrel suggest long use at...

# None of the neighbors know the boy who was killed in the park. They say his name because it was in the papers. Walking their dogs...

The Christmas that she left, Dad took me to the market. I need to see a man, he said, look after yourself. There was slush numbing my...

The elderly had scattered and then returned with hot drinks, horderves ending in I. Room was made, preemptively. The lecturer squeezed...

He’d been up all night, like usual. And for perhaps the final time he knew what his work was. Or call it play or focus or love. He knew...

I knew you were— an elk, lifting your chin above me, trapping my breath in a labyrinth of shadows, your antlers, an ego sprouting from...

At dusk, I leave dark rooms and packaging my sister’s DVDs and clothes. I go out onto the deck, replete with Spotify playlist and glass...

I get a chemistry set. I am a little overwhelmed by the powders and equipment and instructions. I find a simple experiment that involves...

he phoned me, the scammer, and said he would never forget his mother's words— as she gives him everything he might ever own: you'll grow...

Robbie stood at his bedroom window brazenly, his plush opossum toy resting tenderly between his hands. The older woman emerged from the...

I travel to the east of the coldest west Each summer, (To where my father grew to know injustice) Where Auntie says Mama isn't black so...

Our grandparents’ house smells of musty old rugs and comforters, of goat cheese and Trahaná. The entire village groans under the heat and...