Short Fiction and Poetry

Chelsea always had a cigarette clasped between her fingers.  That day she’d chosen Marlboros, courtesy of her five-finger discount. [...]

You’ve never gone to sea, but you’ve spent dark clots of time adrift, translating sounds outside the window. [...]

It looked like a normal Henry, only in black. Same tub-shaped vacuum cleaner, with the same friendly smile and upward looking eyes [...]

Alister McNeal stood close to the roulette table. This was his fourth visit to the newly opened casino. His fists dug into his side. [...]

i don’t want to collapse in front of you don’t want you to see me like that otherwise you would know i mean you would really know [...]

I was there the day Meena and Batoul brought Said into the women’s hammam, carrying him between them in an enormous plastic bucket. [...]

In the shadowed alley where the city breathes, Fyodor waits, a figure in the night, [...]

He is proud of two things—his splendid fists. I catch him in the restroom admiring himself in the mirror, clenching, [...]

In the night, two blue orbs hovered above Boe’s bed. The snakes were watching. What did they want? In the morning, Boe crouched outside [...]

Emma’s baby cousin, Becky, is an extraterrestrial on earth. Emma has known this since Becky’s birth and intends to prove it today, [...]