Maybe You Deserve This You should have the flannelette. These bedsheets are cold, like the well-meaning words of acquaintances. Their...

Oscar Wilde and John Keats in a Cemetery, Spring 2019 Oscar's death had been bitter, as had the last three years of his life in France,...

All Surfaces Lose Their Tension He saw her across campus on a bitter spring morning, the asphalt long between them. It was the waning...

Craving With one elbow on the table and a cheek in your hand like a half crest moon, you watch the band play. The faces next to you are...

OUROBOROS The blue bristles of her toothbrush were fading. Mayumi peered into the steam-covered mirror, baring her teeth before spitting...

Home Even for an immortal and powerful goddess, living away from her mother for six months each year has been hard for Persephone. She is...

Scylla and the Witch Scylla is bathing on the beach again when the witch comes to her dressed in the midnight sky. Sometimes, they do not...

Devils’ Catch The eyes of the river were moving again. Satan and Judas, fishing, sat on the bank of the Styx. Honestly, Satan wasn’t...

Iron Girl She stole more from him than he from her. It was how Olympian marriages worked since Zeus tricked Hera into opening her golden...

Amanel As the trees make music, his head makes structures. So easy for him to bend the metal and form it to a weapon. So easy that in...

Innocent Content My muse dances in front of the windows at exactly four each day after the final roll call of names before the channel...

Something just like this I caress the wedding dress, running my eyes over it with pride. The tailors Father hired outdid themselves – the...

Mercilessness She looked at him with no mercy as he whimpered and silently prayed for a quick death. Anything would be better than to...

The Witch’s Daughter The stories speak of gnarled cypresses, branches like a dark god's crown. Spanish moss, the bangs of the swamp,...