Some people ask me how I spend my time, I remain silent, but the words I heal sit at the tip of my tongue that is usually always covered with the remnants of Or...
He wasn’t even there. And I was excited to tell him how I worked my way all the way through his cookbook—my Billionaire’s Bacon this close to looking like the p...
Let’s try this again. A. confesses to being inoperative since growing is ongoing and she’s been at it too long a time. Luckily, she wears it well. Her cheeks do...
A pub. No, a bar. No, a pub. A man sitting near the window. Weary. A weird waiter. Sunny outside. The man is thoughtful. The waiter asks him what he wants to or...
The roots of my hair fuzz up like lint. Late morning, unbrushed teeth, tacky banana breath, I log onto a Teams meeting. Sale reps still paint their fac...
The creators of the simulation have many interests.
Watching their characters do stupid shit is definitely one of ‘em.
As far as this goes humans are the ...
Consider these words close enough and you too can be part of the story. My muse. Person on the other side of the screen. You, reader: the shadow casted from the...
The landlord banged the door down, issuing his last ultimatum to Sylvia and Warren Snow. They were supposed to pay at least the previous month’s rent in two day...
Butch Cassidy’s real name is Robert LeRoy Parker, which I only know because we’re in love. We met at a Halloween party in Echo Park. I was a cowgirl, and he a r...
So, your father-in-law just passed away—sorry about that by the way—and now you’ve been told you need to make something for your mother-in-law’s sitting shiva. ...
Mikey slides down the big slide at Chuck E. Cheese’s, giggling and squealing. He lands in Joe’s arms, and Joe gives him a bear hug, enveloping the tiny body fro...
By now you realize this will happen every month. The transformations, they suck. I know from experience. And if you’re anything like me, the first one completel...
This is a single-spaced document written in 12-point font, Times New Roman. It comprises about 500 words. If one copied the text of this page into a Microsoft W...
Everyone in the ninth grade knows about Mandy and her Kate Moss waist, but only we know about her reversible heart. She shows us how it unfolds: jumps, flip-flo...
As Friday approached, wildfires exploded in Sonoma and Napa. Smoke spiraled downwind and blanketed the peninsula. No one would drive anywhere that weekend. And ...
I had to live with my grandmom after my parents died last year and it’s sucked ever since. Losing both parents in a car crash? Yeah, really bad. But I bet you m...
At the top of a dark, stone tower, a menacing presence lurked. A lugubrious, green light filled the room which he inhabited. Shut inside his wooden sleeping qua...
A goshawk flew over the river running through our land yesterday, and the bowling alley gave me validation about the fat emptiness I’d held for a stint. The lon...
Enter on Jerry, George, and Elaine in Jerry’s apartment. Jerry sits on his couch, while Elaine leafs through a newspaper. George, pacing and eating a banana, te...
Another Saturday junior golf tournament and no one took it seriously, except for Vic. This was another opportunity to grind, an unavoidable crucible in which hi...
For as long as he could remember, Jalil had always been an Aghazade.
“It’s a term of respect,” his father used to say. “It means you’re destined to bring abo...
Sharp words ricocheted off backsplash tiles in the kitchen, making the mother-daughter skirmishes of yesterday feel pedestrian. How do innocent observations and...
Hannah gasps as she pushes one last time. A baby's hollering follows. I take a deep breath and prepare myself for umbilical cutting duties.
“No need,” says D...
At first glance, Isak looked almost human. I found him splayed against the rocks after a winter storm on one of my daily walks along the shoreline. But as I got...
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It was only later, he realized that these all was nothing more than crop of boredom. He had already had such realizations, of those he thought most crucial...
1. He begins in a bar in Santa Monica in the early evening, a gastropub that serves burgers and beer, though he only has beer, first a lager from a local brewer...
Kim bought the mobility van at auction last week. She bid $500 and won because the odometer read 106000 miles and the motorized ramp didn’t work. She paid the e...
The first one slips in through a paper cut and I burn where his fingers part skin. He climbs in. Enters, head first, shoulders, a slick unbirthing ‘til his feet...
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