Obituary
I read your obituary and it was awful, basically just a long list of names, some of people that you hardly ever saw, much less knew you liked strawberry ice […]
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Mother
Giraffes quietly placed on the endangered species list in 2016.
Never Trust an Avocado; They’ll Turn on You
Watch out for the fruit. They are emotionally unstable, their appearance of sturdiness, reliability and robustness is only skin deep. The grapes of wrath aren’t such a problem – they’re […]
Home
I had a dream, the kind that happens just before you wake up. In the dream the phone rings, and I answer and it is you. You speak my name, […]
The Visitation of Mike Brady
The doorbell buzzed, and it wasn’t an especially long buzz or short buzz. It was just a regular buzz. There was nothing of the harbinger about it. I figured it […]
A Typology of Silence
There are many types of silence, and they all sound different. There is the silence that follows the snick of the door closing on the last guest. There is the […]
Stop Haunting Me Already: A Modern Ghost Story
Before you died, you made me promise that if you died I would never ever forget you. Funny how it’s only now that I’m remembering you said “if” and not […]
The Heart Is An Organ Of Fire
She is traveling, something she will probably be doing more of now, after the breakup. She has begun noticing the distraction of other people again. At the airport, a couple […]
Divorce: A Dog’s Eye View
The house is dark, everyone asleep but the Woman, who is sitting at her open bedroom window crying and sneaking a smoke, a secret she will keep from everyone but […]
No Life Guard On Duty
The summer of the yellow swimsuit she was ten and tall for her age. Skinny as a beanpole, her mother would say, in a way that always made her feel […]
