While your toddler naps inside, you sit in the porch inhaling the scent of your knockouts, watching bees suck at the flowers’ yellow core.

Jenny doesn’t recall when she quit listening to Ana, who is now leaning against the cupboard door, describing yet another nude dream.

“Looks like the inciting incident in a bad porno movie,” Amy said. Her smile crooked and adorable.

Once he makes up his mind, there was no unmaking of it, especially when applied to situations involving sugar.

Grandmother arrived unannounced, again. She had her turmoil filled suitcases and her sharp devil’s tongue in tow.

“The old folks love the merengue,” he said. “Maybe I’ll take you out dancing one night and show you how to chasse properly.”

“What’s he doing?” Jophiel asked, brushing their cornsilk hair out of their eyes.

Natural Selection The quaint dwelling seemed to hunker down on itself as a bleak wind tore through the night, rousing restless trees in...

Close like they did long ago. Death watches from the lawn, stalker that he is. He puts his deathpencil behind his ear and stares.

It was 3:41 in the afternoon, so Tony had just reached Pine Street on his walk home from school.

The opposite of girl-love is girl-hate.

It is not that you have a crush on her. She is as straight as the day is long and has a boyfriend for what? Three years now? Four?

Sabbath Day They shot me once as the clock struck 3pm.

Crescent Mooned You weren’t on the platform when you said you would be. Her nail marks still laid crescent-mooned in my skin.

Memories on the Riverside People leave, Joaquin thought as he gazed at the river. His mother’s petition had just been approved, and it...

The Things We Do For Silence It’s as if the incessant buzzing of Nova’s purifier makes the air murkier, not cleaner. The room is filled...

Mary’s Walk In her final hour Mary, resting in her bedchambers and dying of uterine cancer she had thought to be a baby, found herself on...

Another World Maman's brittle white hair drifted on the pillow like dove wings as she said, "Poupee, you should go eat something. Or...

It's Different Here Josephine swayed anxiously from side to side. A cheap leather purse hung from her shoulder, stuffed with savory...

Interplanetary It is easy to lose track of space and time at Marie’s apartment. By midnight, only blacklights and the glowing carb of a...