Bartender cocks an eyebrow, raises a glass to the light, checks it for dust. Cool dude, this bartender. Big. Stands a bit like John Wayne in ‘The Man Who Shot ...
Every Friday evening, I swim in cold waters. It’s become a happy, although, oftentimes freezing habit. My local lido allows cares and struggles of the week to d...
In my run-down Williamsburg studio, I keep artifacts to remember my ex-lovers by. Artifacts. I say it like they’re dead. The majority of these artifacts sit on ...
The mind can drift when it’s alone, both to greener pastures and darker shadows. For Scarlet, the silence was always greener. It was her safe space, her mind pa...
It was Halloween 1999. I sat in the front seat of the Dodge Caravan, my dad in the middle of a championship rant about punctuality. I was late coming out of my ...
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Holly doesn’t know these woods. She is a stranger to these trees, with their menacing branches, just as she is a stranger in the nearest town. She doesn’t know ...
It was the same feeling.
What you would hear described as bone-tingling, and what I had, myself, described the same way. A heavy coldness at the point where ...
Mother always in the corner of my eye. This is what she is now, something I can almost see.
She wasn’t always like this. It began with black dresses and veil...
Chantal knew that when Astral Projections, her local cinema, decided to showcase a Shrek event, an overnight, back to back to back to back showing of Shrek, Shr...
The fire in the hearth was roaring, flames crackling and sending smoke up the chimney, blued and sweet into winter air. The grandchildren had gathered, a collec...
Stief accepted the gig for us to play a Halloween show in Centralia. We told him to back out, that we’d land us a spot at Urban Bloodbath and we wouldn’t have t...
Welcome to your own little home, dear, what was once mine— the hill it sits on, the grass and the worms, the one good sunny patch in the back that’s fit for gro...
I found a decent looking hole in the wall restaurant near the wide and beautiful Xiang River that bisects the city. I had just reconnected with long-lost cousin...
Every night we get drunk on a dead woman’s wine. We run eucalyptus bubblebaths to sooth our over-worked bodies and lather ourselves in her lotions and creams. W...
“Why come out here for peace if everything is still so goddamn loud?” I ask the empty room.
Brushes and scratches fill the cabin's air, the caked artificial ...
The whole business was a terrible shame and, if only you’d listened to me, things needn’t have turned out like this. Had you just stayed calm and not bolted out...
Before Waze, before GPS, before MapQuest, there were road atlases, and before forgotten drinks in the trunk of a grandfathered vehicle – exempt from emissions t...
When a pair of ski-masked men walk into the country hospital, guns drawn and saying Do what we say and you won’t get hurt, nobody knows how to react at first. P...
We’re writing ghost stories together. It’s autofiction. We’re BFFs. Mostly started as YESNOGOODBYE but now she calls me bitch and we laugh until I weep into my ...
I don’t think it really hit home that I was moving out for good until the man came to fix my doorbell. This guy was a magician; he was on some real David Blaine...
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...
Way up in the clouds, in the sky, right in the middle of heaven, I walk to the mall to meet a once-coworker. I walk just the one road and it’s not far from my a...
Malone needed another man / and I was there. My first day as parking lot attendant at the Aviation mall; it was empty save for select groups of tourist families...
Although the seat belt sign had been illuminated, indicating that passengers should remain in their seats with their seat belts securely fastened low and tight ...
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...
Hi, I’m Martin Scorsese. I’m here to show you all the blueprints. As you can see, I am surrounded by maps and storyboards, even a Buddhist urn, but I don’t want...
It started with the cereal box. A phrase in bright blue bubble letters held up by an army of cartoon frogs;
Initially believing it to be some sort of n...
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 ...