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The daughter is tired of walking, the muscles in her thighs and calves trembling as they climb, but there’s no chance of the father turning […]

The fruit flies started in the kitchen. They started on the tomatoes. We picked the fruit pink in a race against the raccoons, piling them […]

I was twelve when I became a tree. Mother prepared me for the blood, for my stomach to turn, for my body to change, but […]

We took turns being Firefly: the pink, winged unicorn with a blue mane and lightning bolts on her haunches. Firefly was the prettiest, and all […]

Near the surface of the turbid manmade lake glow tendrils. Ultraviolet clusters of slime, white spheres suspended in each sloppy cylinder. I’ve got a copper […]

The baby is chewing her fingers. She’ll put anything (a phone, a tube of barrier cream, your house keys, an empty blister pack of Methlyphenidate […]

“The mammoth hunters spectacularly occupy the cave wall and the mind, but what we actually did to stay alive and fat was gather seeds, roots, […]

I need to become a wrinkly, bitter old person immediately. Adolescence is such a bore. My friends obsess over boys, gossip, and grades. I’m shorter […]

Baby comes into the world fat bloody and useless. It stays this way all its life. No claws no bark no kelly green solar panels. […]

It was specifically stated in my will that my mother not be my embalmer. As the Commander-in-Chief of a country in strife, I was practical […]