Fiction

So Stay.

Now you inhale her because you once read that cyanide smells of sweet almonds. In her bed, after finding each other in a bar you only entered because of its boo...

The Boombox

His father announced to the table that he brought the boombox. "No, Dad," said Gerry. “If you do . . .” Gerry was my best friend, and we were at the rehea...

Soda Drinkers

Everybody loves Soda, the new soda from Food Corp. We all drink it all the time. People say it has a secret ingredient that turns estrogen into tumors. I don’t ...

Daddy Long Legs

Hedy lives in the city now. I try not to think of her too much, tossing her long braids in class, or drinking at a bar in Hell’s Kitchen, a young, flabby Wall S...

Mira

She brought me Mai Tais at my brother’s private resort in Mexico. They tasted like medicine - thick syrup on the bottom and pure liqueur on top - but I still do...

THE GIANTS

I lived in a village in the woods where looking up was forbidden. It was forbidden because it was dangerous. If you looked up into the sky you would be sucked a...

Breakup Sketch

Attorney Meredith Browning’s husband of five years, Drew Baxter, an emerging star in stand-up and sketch comedy, now on the second season of the eponymous sitco...

Pastoralia

They were hitting. The two boys along the streambank, angry as Cain and Abel and oblivious of paradise vanishing, and just by the water’s edge, they were hittin...

The Imposter

The first time I see the robot inside my husband, I think I must be imagining it. The alarm fractures my dreams, propels me into a hot cave of blankets, a ha...

Container

You will ease into the leather. Drive your slim frame into the car’s black cushion. You treat it like a dream pillow. Your eyes blink in slow motion, when you l...

Water Parks

Beaver Tooth Baptism - This ride recreates that September afternoon when the air hit a hundred degrees and you watched Courtney balance across the fallen tree t...

New Year’s Drive

I dreamt I fucked your husband. Except we didn’t, not technically, there was no penetration, and he came early while we were still rolling around. Told me he ha...