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And maybe he only did it because he was tired.
Maybe that was it, maybe mama not baking the honey baked ham with the glistening mounds of soaked black beans ...
The Taste of Water
Can you describe it? Can you describe the taste of water?
No, not mineral, not bubbly water…
Plain water, flat, ...
Instinct
Outside the sky was clearing. The stray rock lay at an arm’s distance in his cage. His own body stood outside, free and smiling at him. With the monkey now ...
Attempts
He calls for help, then the cavalry arrives to breathe life into the dead thing that was you. They blue light you to hospital, pump death out of you and ...
Trial
A young family is torn apart by the military junta in Argentina.
Dangerfield Describes a Sky
Once Dangerfield was on top of the world, but that was almost twenty years ago now. He didn’t even work at it back then; it just flowed out of him ...
Immortality
A long train trip home on endless steel rails through the swamp.
Between Here and Oblivion
He wasn’t supposed to be here. He should be checking on steam cleaners and bottles of solvents, cleaning the debris, clearing the bodies. Bodies… They had always been bodies. Silent ...
Cuckoo
The body and roof were covered in ivy, carved out of the walnut. It made it seem forgotten, away somewhere in a wood, perhaps in a Grimm fairy tale.
The Preaching
There is a desperate belief in magic. You wait for it to touch your life, but even here—where the magic is supposed to exist—nothing happens, and the waiting compels you ...
Red Laser Beam
It shone through the window, then curtain, then onto the rug…
City of Refuge
“To dig stone out of the ground and build a house is the sin of the city dweller,” her father taught. “Such permanence leads to nothing but problems. First the ...
So You Want to Be a Poet
The host introduces you as her favorite rock star poet. Everyone cheers. Two people buy a chapbook. You live off that night for weeks.
Old School
“We laid-out four of the bastards straight off ’n’ the rest disappeared faster than a bride’s nightie. Beers were still cold on the bar when we got back.”
Mohawk
“Guys, this is Sara,” he said. She looked gorgeous and hard, like a dark princess, with long auburn hair, pale skin, and smudgy eyeliner. Her dusty black dress was either ...
A Lovely House in the Country
A faded blue gingham curtain left by the previous owners of the house covered the window and let in only a little light. But it was clean; the floor shone, ...
Red Nose
“Another, please,” he said. It was only his second after the single one he always had, so why not? With an undisguised look of disgust, the bartender poured it straight ...
Looba and Titus
Watching him so imprisoned in plastic and cables, I tried to inhabit the moment in which humanity ceased asking can we keep him alive, and was left with the Devil’s ...
Syrbeck and the Infant Jesus of Prague
The statue is intact except its hands are broken off. They prop the statue upright and the priest breaks out in a sweat and his eyes bulge as if ...
Dog Killing
It would look at me and I’d wish it would lunge already, but it never did. It would look at me and I could hear it thinking, take your time ...