Child, I have, at times, gotten into cars with people I didn’t know – though that night in Italy shouldn’t count. The unreliable trains, the language barrier, the parade of catcalls, muscled forearms proffered by dashing […]
Category: Fiction
The Games Ladies Play, or Some Men Haven’t Got A Clue
Muah! Darlings, wonderful to meet you! I’m so glad you all signed up for my seminar today with me, the infamous Mrs. White! You ladies can call me Blanche, and while some time has passed […]
Text—The End
s’up I have a mtg soon need to prep u always have a mtg or an appt or need to boost your bromance ur such a bitch why fight with me when I’m […]
The Headless Horseman Walks the Pumpkin Trail at the Lubbock Arboretum
So many possible faces. Once I was a man. Once I held my tiny niece’s hand, watched her fingers curl around my single forefinger. I remember the sweet pink of her skin, the scrunch of […]
Your Girlfriend as an Eternal Fire
They will say no one knows how the burning started, no one knows really, they will dig up wiggle-worm earth from beneath her feet, rain it down upon her in steamshovel handfuls, and still she […]
The Phlebotomist’s Tale
I moved from Memphis to Knoxville and started working at a clinic, taking blood, much as I had before, except I liked this job better, because for whatever reason, this clinic had younger patients and […]
Dinner With Joe
When smoke fills the room is when I see things clear: It will only ever be me and this amorphous dog prowling around what used to be my dad’s farm. The flames coal at dusk. […]
Vertigo, Or a Swarming of Ghosts
Whenever I stare down a flight of stairs, I feel closest to death. When I was five, I almost tumbled downstairs. Death would have been easiest then, but my balance worked out that day; my […]
Grocery List
“Linger” – The Cranberries Lately, you run errands, anything to get out of the house. You are wandering through the supermarket. The lights are too bright. The wheel on the cart wobbles, turns and skids […]
Rejection Letters 