The Last Whale
When the last whale passed by there was so much excitement you almost forgot it was supposed to be a sad thing that was happening. Everyone was out on the […]
Tag Archives: flash fiction
The Banquet of Desire
I want to chew through you like steak. I want to feel the many textures of you against my tongue – here, rough like salted almonds; there, smooth like mashed […]
Under the Stare of the Moon
I am the moon, that eye high in the sky you thought followed you when you were a child. I wasn’t following you but I was watching you, all right. […]
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 […]
I Have My Mother’s Eyes
I always think about you on father’s day, how you didn’t get a chance to know your daddy. He died when you were just eight. Your few memories of him […]
Cristobel of Tragicstan
She sits at the kitchen table drinking coffee and wishing for a cigarette. It was a stupid wish, because she gave up smoking for the last time a month ago. […]
Sounds of the Night Watch: A Cry In the Dark
Last night I woke suddenly, as if ejected from sleep. I couldn’t see the clock over the vague hump of your blanketed shoulder, but it was the deepest ditch of […]
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