Short Fiction and Poetry

THERE WAS SUNLIGHT AND THERE WERE TREES. There was a lake and then there was she. Swimming, the water- so warm and so black [...]

The evening had unfolded on an unusually bright note: the last vestige of vernal sunlight finally peeked through [...]

Outside, summer is dying into fall, and blue daddy petunias sprout ears— hear the beginning of night chills. [...]

Outside the diner at 385 Sixth Avenue, humanity ebbed and flowed. It would often take a brief pause to eat, then continue on [...]

If they're posed as reverent, the strong lack any strength. But in the final days they're the same as ever. [...]

Emotionless breeze blows. Bloodless skin feels it. But frozen lips never move. [...]

Fergus looked around. The face he saw there made him wince—or rather, made him feel like wincing. Too nice a guy for that, he smiled [...]

“I just remembered I bought a lottery ticket today,” she said. “But you said there would be no more of that,” he said. [...]

When I think about all The strange ideas that I hadn’t shared—that Evaporated in thin air; [...]

You know, I take data from what I’m told plus what I see, plug it in and the equation keeps spitting out incoherent [...]