Fiction
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Sunday Scaries: “Bird Mama”
A bird. Someone had burdened her with a captured baby bird. A mammoth thing, too, the size of a human infant. White and downy, with a blocky cartoon head.
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Homecoming
The lifespan of a Père David’s deer is roughly eighteen years. You often think you only lived until eighteen. Then you died in a way no one else recognizes. You’re a walking corpse, shipped home and paraded around, bearing the…
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Liturgy of Teeth
The future is a long exhalation. It becomes a prism now and in it I see God, my father, myself, fractals of light creating new light and everything caught up in it. I see a cascade of machines falling down…
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Sunday Scaries: “Little Cat People”
He never shows during the day, even when I sit on the porch to watch for him. But this morning, dawn not yet arrived, he pokes a teeny hand out with nails that curl into spirals on only four digits,…
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Our Mothers
We mostly lived in cities—big and small—and we became busy with our own lives, or tried to be busy (sometimes we were busier worrying about our lives than living them, but in our twenties it was hard to tell the…
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River Mouth
**This short story won the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean Me and Val standing at the edge of the water, just above where Pagua River mouth open wide wide like it want to…
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Sunday Scaries: “Delicates”
Even the crunching tick of the mounted clock held off to hear Gwendolyn’s need for disruption.
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Falling Scales
The longer she stayed in the water, the better the numbness felt. She dipped her head back. How easy it would be to slip in just a little bit further. Clothes swollen with silt and midges and snow fleas. Heart…
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Overnight Success
We grow extremely fertile. We are super wombs. We conjure orgasm on command. We menstruate painlessly and our blood is glitter and heals cuts and scabs.
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Love and Medicine
I was not always gentle with my body. I slept with older men, with sad men, with finance bros and community organizers. I liked the med students best, angry orthopedists-in-training and the fuckboys clawing their way to anesthesiology.
