Fiction & Poetry
Category
Getting Off
Mallory’s ability to be a productive member of society ended at precisely 1:37 PM Eastern one summer Wednesday when the boy she’d been seeing/obsessing over for about three weeks made it clear via text message that he wasn’t looking for a relationship.
Breakfast with David Duchovny
David Duchovny cracks
an egg & the sun rips.
Boy Goes Against the Agreement With His Parents / Ibis redibis
No! No! No! Yes, I peed on the carpet, but in my defence, dad had been playing video games instead of taking me to the playground.
This Nightmare of Skin
There is no escape from this skin, she said;
Sleep has no home here
I’d been told to kill everyone at home.
The Cycles of Larson
roadkill, white-tailed deer
4 Poems
Fool yourself
and say it’s grass and not pavement.
Diary of a Mediocre Witch
2/28/12
Britney: Check your email.
Erika: ??
Britney: I found a place with all these powerful spells. I sent you a link, and other stuff.
GREEN SCREEN ZAWAHIRI
“Whoever makes a picture will be punished for it on Judgment Day and will be ordered to put a soul into that picture which he will not be able to do.”
The Shooter
Emerging from the john with her coat draped over her arm and carrying her overnight bag, Sharon tossed a gift-wrapped box onto the living room couch where I’d been dozing.