Short Fiction and Poetry

When I am gone, come sit by my grave And bring along your memories A gift of days, water-colored and soft as rain, [...]

There is a walled district called Lime that has a separate existence tucked away and hidden from the rest of the town. [...]

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Em Seever palms the items in Mother's pantry. She checks dates, wipes down dust, mashes a roach. The motions dampen her awareness [...]

Halfway between one corner and the next, down steps strewn with twisted paper, greasy twine, “going out of business, everything must go[...]

It’s a voice only I understand and then not always. It isn’t the voice that you recognize as mine over the phone [...]

The figure, a man, perhaps an unusually tall woman, stood silhouetted and motionless atop the sandstone ridge [...]

Gavin Helmscott III had lived, if you could call what he did living, nearly three centuries whole and unmolested, if a bit faded of late[..]

An insidious intent tells our inner selves Of sacrifice and solitude, suspense and sacrilege, Of sorrows and souls' starvation [...]

Elsie sat at the forest’s edge, her back against the deeply grooved bark of a fallen walnut tree. A moment earlier, three short [...]