Short Fiction and Poetry

As the leaves manifest their orange hues, I am happy, yet tears gush, showing no mercy. Seven months ago, we spent three days [...]

The hours slap-chugging a microbial path At a bacterial pace Across the shrugging ocean’s skin Has reduced many to choking eels, [...]

Why did he have to go to Japan? That May. It was too far for an impulse trip. Even old people book tickets [...]

The bars hem me in They are in truth phantoms My sandals drag circles In the damp sand forming trenches of forgetting [...]

Outside the clinic, the sun strikes white marble that covers the entire area, while the walls of glass on the right side [...]

Why can’t we change as quickly as an October landscape, whose air no longer sounds with terns and jays [...]

roaming hand in hand in a comely plain all of a sudden [...]

Dear Diary, I’m sorry I couldn’t write to you last night like I always do on Sunday. We didn’t get home until real late [...]

Our belly’s flat with hunger, our skin cracks from cold, we shiver and laugh when we see the breath come out of our mouths [...]

Seemingly the sun is leaving the earth in the lurch I snuff out the candle and retire to the bedstead to sacrifice the gleams [...]