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.