Category: Fiction

Manifest Destiny

The best choice Mitt Romney ever made.

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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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Over-Love

Until the February of his eleventh year, Joseph Cohen felt an inordinate kind of sympathy for all earthly things he encountered, even—and in some moods, especially—for inanimate objects.

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To Talk To Jellyfish

When she was seven, Kaya said, “If I ever grow up and have my own bank account, the first thing I’m gonna buy is a Christmas tree and then Christmas tree ornaments.”

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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 Glass Cracked

When the glass on a train cracks, strange and impossible things reveal themselves to the protagonist in this speculative fiction piece.

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Schrödinger’s Lottery

“Maybe it was the cheap thrill of furiously scratching them with a quarter, and seeing all those shimmery silver shavings pile up.”

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Lester in Love

I: For a neurotic weenie you sure seem to be a man of action.
L: Yeah, well sometimes.

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Sound and Fury

“how can I cry for someone who doesn’t even know
what’s going on?”

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The Bust of Sokrates

“But then the Romans didn’t want paunchy, lumpy bodies in their villas (aside from their own), so they decapitated Sokrates, already green and moldy from the hemlock, and shoved his face alone in their alcoves, dressing him up in pure white marble.”

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The Real Deal

Who said pen pals couldn’t be best friends?

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Too Evolved

“Is purple the color of evolution?”

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