
A strange new lust arose in young-man Pip as he watched Miss Havisham circle the repast and wedding cake, …
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I didn’t want to come over because I had already bought a ticket to Pinocchio (live action), but …
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CONTENT WARNING: EXPLICIT AND GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONBribsy the Rabbit is a very funnyfull rabbit who loves to hop hop hop. …
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i.Silks are stacked like a physical rainbow, designs like Sanskrit on water, cool luminosity begging for a caress between thumb and finger. The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is hidden …
Essay

I can hear Ted Koppel’s voice coming from somewhere, reporting on the violence that I’m seeing with my …
Essay

lilac draped courtyard, melancholy compost, spousal tongue erects blockades— the I (eye) tires of the restrictive, familiar imagery— swampy masses, yellow nerves seeking, rebinding our mutual human/animal connection— …
Poetry

(translated from the Polish by Dawid Mobolaji) I was telling you about Mama’s boyfriends – about their smell, …
Short Story

The sophisticated lady sees the small helpless child contained in a steel cylinder. The child’s anxious upturned face is …
Short Story

Before the game I asked my Girl to stop cheering for Doofus Danny, the roided out linebacker all the …
Short Story

Man hurtles himself headfirst at his 15th-floor window, all the unwavering self-hate Man can muster.Window doesn’t shatter, doesn’t shudder, doesn’t waver.Window is no Hollywood pussy break-away glass window.Man is no …
Flash Fiction

It was all a dream.I’m actually a cat.You have a split personality that’s way cooler and more assertive than you and gets all the ladies.The doctor was the injured boy’s …
Flash Fiction

For you Sam Sam calls it this human experiment I ripped off the phrase It features in the opening story of my book Which I sent to Sam Who read …
Poetry

I don’t expect to run into my mother on the Ibiza strip surrounded by drunks and neon lights and …
Flash Fiction

i hunger for the moment of entry for expansion yielding all pretense all carefully constructed indifference to a muted question of permission may? i?
Poetry

Janice learned early in her journalism career–when she still had a career, or access to that grand ladder of …
Short Story

subjugation wait, i can explain -- i used to be feral, chewing raw meat with sugary teeth, sucking on a carcass during sleepless nights, trying to fend off boars and …
Poetry

Leonard and I had laughed hard first, then with trepidation, when Caroline, at five years old and in …
Short Story

Sunny And now the sun appears – an arrogant schoolboy staring through my window – What am I doing? Just looking.
Poetry

Now, with your temporary elopement drawing to an end, every minute spent together was, for both of you, “worth …
Short Story

1793The hickories and black gums done been naked a piece, and Christmas come and went two months past. …
Short Story

There once was a father who tried his hardest to achieve his goal of teaching his son to …
Flash Fiction

Just below the fine white linen tablecloth, on his lap where only she could see it, he held …
Short Story

I like to walk fast and imagine minutes falling away on the other side of whatever journey is unfolding. …
Flash Fiction