We drove out to Fig’s place to see about Holiday, who owed Vaughn some money, I guess. They were on the outs again, but Holiday was still crashing there. I coul...
Mario was a regular, self-employed plumber with Italian roots, an amusing, high voice, and a ludicrous mustache that somehow worked, lent just enough man to his...
I’m watching the other passengers board the plane and counting every pair of Lululemon leggings I see. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s true-Lulu and what’s a...
Midway down Joseph Avenue, I was hailed down by a motivational patrol car. I pulled my vehicle to the curb and waited as the motivational officer made his way o...
A gust of wind had knocked down the bouquet overnight. In the morning, I found the flowers on the floor, white linen ribbon cinching the stems dirty and wet, th...
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The best place in Riverton for beef is Arlo’s. Just ask Denise Gross. She won’t go anywhere else for beef. Did you know that Denise and her husban...
At her nearest branch of the Cyprus Post Office, Nefeli has two simple tasks: to mail a letter and receive a parcel.
There are five free tills. The three emp...
A man came across an interesting advertisement in the newspaper. Below a photograph of three women in aprons and hairnets (the advertisement was for a local san...
I was in the breakroom at work, failing to remove the cellophane top from a Jell-o cup, when I realized I was missing my right index finger.
I was skeptical....
Mum invited Ian to come to my place this afternoon. She only told me when he was on his way. He doesn't have a brother or sister, she explained, and I nodded. I...
And this is how I knew we were a marginalised people. Not the sticky floor, not the questionable arrangement of outdoor seating, not the wafts of urinal cake le...
Uncle drove from house to house in his gauche sedan. No one opened their door to greet the man in person. For the sake of death, however, concessions had been m...
The one-armed woman beams beatifically at my toddler as she walks us towards the forest behind the sprawling estate home. She’d appeared out of nowhere, like an...
Why? How could it be? That out of all the things the government lies about it was this that they decided to be honest on? Public Advisory Statement #672: “Do no...
When I woke from a short-timed sleep, a voice whispered in my ear to lay its thick rasp over my mind in the way the fog dressed the mountains nearby the laborat...
My tick repellant stopped working so now I’m covered in ticks.
I tried going to the store for more tick repellant but I didn’t make it.
Going to the store...
Billy stands at the bathroom mirror, gazing at his own reflection. The shower head drips onto the white porcelain tub as he holds a razor in his hand, lost in t...
I’m dead at the moment. Haven’t been for too long but I’m already bored. There’s nothing here in my void except a pair of weathered sandals the previous tenant ...
After I left college not knowing what to do next, and just before going back to college because I didn’t know what to do next, I delivered pizzas. You know the ...
Don’t Look Now (1973)
A despairing mystery. Married couple Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, grieving their drowned daughter, hope to heal during a...
I knew Maine the way I understood every floorboard of my house, each place they creaked when I sneaked in at night. The rest of the world was a myth I read abou...
Suzie used to be this wonderful alcoholic. Cheaply buzzed, she’d sing, dance, tell silly jokes.
“Hey Opal,” Suzie said the night we met, “why’d the calamari ...
“He held me against the wall and said, ‘You’re a strawman, you’ll never amount to a thing,’” my butcher told me, adding a cut of meat to the scales. I stood at ...
My leader isn’t fearless, but she sure has balls. “Barf bags,” Carrigan says to the CVS employee, like she’s inquiring about dish soap. “Whereabouts?”
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Vanessa is a dedicated believer of every prominent alt-right conspiracy theory, as well as some lesser-known ones, and she is training me to be an accountant. O...
Girls had ruined her life; being one, and otherwise. That’s why men who committed acts of violence because they were rejected by women were, in her mind, the lo...
“Good Evening! Is this Regina Wilson?” Jesus says, repeating the script his superior, Jerry, has given him.
“This is her.”
“I’d like to talk to you about ...
Strangers wouldn’t be able to tell Pam’s parents loved each other, but she knew they did. At night, she often lay in bed, unable to sleep due to their giggling ...
In a world of unlimited possibilities—intersecting timelines, echoes of actions reverberating forever—complimenting Janey’s Doc Martins was the only thing I cou...