Short Fiction and Poetry

The war within me rages still: An endless ebb and flow, high tides and low A riptide of dangerous, clashing emotions [...]

Her grandfather had always frightened Lauren with stories about what creatures lived at the bottom of the river [...]

It was a hot night. He tossed and turned restlessly in his sheets. In his dream he saw a vast steppe [...]

jupiter's digestive tract: small solar system and one kuiper object [...]

The colors of autumn swirl around Olivia as she enjoys a late afternoon walk. Her rust-colored dog, Maisy, ambles along by her side [...]

I used to know who I was. Today I’m just another adult. There are a lot of us. Adulthood makes for an easy scapegoat [...]

Far below us, I can see the barrel cactuses on the side of the plateau, and he drags me back wordlessly by the neck away from the edge [...]

We watched through the back window as she ran after our bus in the rain. We: Dry. Confined. Going forward [...]

We worked in two rows. Our father dug up spuds in dress trousers, the big yellow tubers encrusted with bog navy earth surrounding him [...]

cotton candy and carnival rides, stretched across the boardwalk tides [...]