Oats
The age-progressed photo doesn’t show whether acne will bloom across your cheeks, if your eyebrows will bridge themselves; you are only worth find...
Genesis
In the beginning there were Piña coladas and double whiskies, a chance encounter at a bar. I was lonely, overworked, searching. He was funny, e...
Pink Slip
Here is a bet for you: one day you wake up and you are the immolated queen. Your skin no longer belongs to you. The man in the finest pinst...
Fata Morgana
The outcrop of trees across the valley was a catalog of poses and I—sometimes bending to scoop, sometimes standing to breathe—noticed it l...
Gary Krum, 47 Year Old Member of the Ku Klux Klan, Packages Candy In Order to Recruit New Members and Cause General Panic
“Were Smarties really the b...
About Me Being a Big Brother
Uncle Rufus from 5b spends the night and makes bratwurst for breakfast. We stand at the kitchen window eating the bratwu...
A Million Year Old Circus
My mom died believing dinosaurs were a hoax.
The Great Dinosaur Emporium littered our town with flyers and posters months ...
Conspicuous
He was wearing sunglasses and seemed oblivious to everything around, except the highway ahead. "The black country," he called it, looking...
Bartonville Scene Report: Aria
The music in Aria's earbuds follows her into her dreams some nights. At times, she dreams vampire stories which she writ...
A Congregation Of Sparrows
Every morning, when he wasn't at the Veteran Administration's Hospital or teaching a course in philosophy at the United Fe...
Tandem
My best friend and I used to ride our bike through cities swollen with cars. I always sat in the back so I could admire the straight hairline in the mid...
