Fiction/Nonfiction: fiction

  • Uniform

    Teenagers and tragedy. This one didn’t hit hard at first, but hours later I was thinking about it. It’s great.

  • Hippo Brain

    You can’t outrun being born poor anymore than a rabbit can outrun being born a rabbit. Get as far away as you like, you’ll still spend the rest of your days listening for the wolf at the door, watching for threatening shadows on the ground. Being poor is being hunted. Forever.

  • Stan

    About a sad, homeless man that comes around the house now and then, told through the eyes of a child.

  • The Blue Room

    The Blue Room is lit with a cerulean light. With the exception of a narrow, elevated walkway and a pillow for visitors to sit on, its walls, floor, and ceiling are covered in blue soundproofing foam. In the middle of the floor, halfway sunken into the foam, like something washed up on a beach, is a…

  • Mystery Lights

  • Trogloxene

  • In a voice too low to wake anybody

    A family member spiraling into depression and despondence, neglecting himself and his dogs. She again uses the second person as the point of view, and again things don’t unfold the way you expect. This one has a grim undertone of mental illness and loss, and the last paragraph, and the way the narrator’s voice evolves…

  • The Bread of Life

    It starts as an expression of gratitude, told in the second person, and things get weird in a hurry. To say more would be to spoil it. It only takes a couple minutes to read, but will probably cost a few hours of sleep, trying to forget.

  • Go To Hell

    I thought I knew what hot was. Humidity I could swallow. The wings of dead fish flies going translucent in the sun. Sprinkles melting off my ice cream cone the second I walk out of the shop.  There is no ice cream here. There are plenty of dead things, but they are not stiff and…

  • The Good Sport

    In any social group of women, there is often one member whom the others dislike, not because she has done anything wrong or caused offense but simply for her inability to camouflage her weakness. If she is lonely and makes her loneliness known, that will be a mark against her; if she is afraid of…