Short Fiction and Poetry

Crisp white sheets contrasted against the dark bruises on her knuckles as she made the bed. [...]

This night is tedious. I turn the pages of a book, but quit after a brief look. [...]

I know the myriad ways a lover loves As once a young poet wrote, counting the ways[..] I know the intensity of a love that is more than love

I stopped giving a shit when I turned sixty-five. Pauline told me it would happen and crowed about the sense of freedom [...]

When I am gone, come sit by my grave And bring along your memories A gift of days, water-colored and soft as rain, [...]

There is a walled district called Lime that has a separate existence tucked away and hidden from the rest of the town. [...]

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Em Seever palms the items in Mother's pantry. She checks dates, wipes down dust, mashes a roach. The motions dampen her awareness [...]

Halfway between one corner and the next, down steps strewn with twisted paper, greasy twine, “going out of business, everything must go[...]

It’s a voice only I understand and then not always. It isn’t the voice that you recognize as mine over the phone [...]