OLD BLOG | Puerto del Sol

FICTION | Interview with the Pope

The Pope had written the words: "Clear enough behind soft white smiles: the tongue. And beyond that: the breath. And beyond that? Nothi

FICTION | The In-Betweens

Sometimes at night, wild zombies roam.

FICTION | The Boyfriend Pact

The habits of the Buck-Fifty Boyfriend might best be described as unpredictable, though they may also be considered odd.

FICTION | A Good Korean Daughter

There’s just no pleasing your mother.

FLASH FICTION | Being the Murdered Mama

The newspapers will ask has anyone seen your baby, the newspapers will shed crocodile tears for your young life.

FICTION | Misdeeds of the Root

2019 PROSE CONTEST WINNER. At noon, the women move into the house. It is one story, wooden, abandoned.

FICTION | The Child

We buried the child at midnight in the shadow of an ocotillo.

FICTION | My Unparalleled Occcupancy

Do you imagine that floors are flat? They are not. As with many things, this cannot be perceived from afar.

FICTION | Other Susan

I know it would destroy her if I wasn’t. I know it would destroy us if we weren’t. I know it will one way or the other.

FICTION | The Age of Virtual Children

It began—this much is certain—with the childless, and more particularly, the unhappily childless, those who had settled into lives of quiet,

FICTION | Shoes in the Suburbs

Love me, Val! I say. Love me you excited like-sucker!

FICTION | A Regular-Looking Man, Alone

I feel in league with the women of the world. Soon we will walk out of the museum and eat lunch somewhere.

FICTION | Miss Sandy Bay Trout Festival 2005

Losing her was not a thing we had considered.

FICTION | Burns & Helen, Past & Present

A rooster makes me up early every day, she says, and he knows she isn’t awake, she’s asleep after all—and, considering everything, talking v

FICTION | Cakewalk

You first see her at Polish Town Polka Days. She’s the one in mismatched costume, dancing confidently with men twice her age and singing alo

FICTION | Living to Die at the Cheap Butts Filling Station

Every Sunday the cashier at the Cheap Butts Filling Station gets all shot to dead.

FLASH FICTION | Go On

“Your lips are like a bird,” I say. “And when you kiss me, I hear the most beautiful songs.”

FICTION | Exhaust

We’ve only had one medic killed in the history of our company and it wasn’t a medic; it was an EMT.

FICTION | How Clowns Die

Alone, we cannot trust the night to offer us anything, not even kettle corn, not even light.

FICTION | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2017 PROSE CONTEST WINNER. Our Abraham Lincoln was dead but we looked alive.

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