Category: Fiction

Supernovae

“Sometimes it would end with go to your room but sometimes it would end with why are you so angry? and that hurt a lot more.”

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How Many Beasts

“When we pull up to Auntie’s in our blood-colored minivan, Olly is definitely gone.”

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The Turtle

The Nass enters the wide world of surrealist fiction.

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Lincoln

“He wouldn’t have taken it normally, but there was a girl at Lincoln’s shoulder, a fiber science major who kept touching his button-down to inspect the weave, and he couldn’t tell afterwards whether she’d only kissed him because it was 100% cotton.”

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Vines, Pt. 2

The dramatic conclusion to a serialized tale of owlery.

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Vines, Pt. 1

“Is it too late to go around asking strangers for tylenol?”

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First, Nothing

“Let yourself age. Let time press through your skeleton like water, dribbling through your pores, let it sing right through your bones…”

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The Story about a War and Some Other Things

“Anyway, I’ve heard stories are supposed to have morals. I don’t know if this is much of a story, really, but I’ll give it a moral anyhow.”

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Proud, Lifeless, And Very Much Clean

“He is desperate for his dinner, too hungry to say hello, … he laments his work, his employer, his cold-footed commute, … he grinds his teeth at our rationed mutton and yet—the frugal bastard—gives me nothing, nothing, not a penny to spare.”

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Where the River Narrows

” ‘There are four ways to get into Narrows,’ Grandpa once said, leaning back in a rocking chair in his Colorado living room. ‘Two’ Grandma countered. ‘One across the bridge, one along the railroad tracks where you turn right.’ ‘There are four ways,’ he insisted, ‘but it took me twenty years to find them all.’ “

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Photograph of Dismemberment

“There are some things that she wishes she did not know.”

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In the Glow of this Candle

“It does not matter that Claire in real life, though a remarkably talented singer, is not a songwriter. This Claire is not that Claire, even though they are inextricably linked by more than their names and the name of their current partners.”

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