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Something wriggles in his mouth. The music at the party is bombastic. Tchaikovsky. The old world. He might hurl. A woman with silky plaited hair […]

She goes to the horror film festival in lieu of her sister, who was ill with morning sickness and suddenly felt, despite years of being […]

We were always driving in my car. You never took the wheel. The billboards never scared me. They taught me nothing of the world. At […]

I go, “Please.” And you say, “No chance.” So, “Please. Please. Please,” I plead. “No. No. No.” Twilit. Almost all dark, outside, on our lawn […]

GREETINGS FROM SANDS POINT, NEW YORK! He’s under firework duress, John Phillip Sousa, down in his basement building a miniature American schoolhouse out of repurposed […]

They named her UMWELT, and she was the metric by which all internal experiences could be judged. They scanned her mind and sampled her stem […]

I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn’t know he’d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative […]

The scientists were holding a press conference. They often did this and were often ignored. The public was sick of novel findings. They couldn’t figure […]

A lighthouse stands. A lighthouse stands sentry some four miles off Ireland’s southernmost coast. This lighthouse is named the Fastnet after the rock on which […]

I don’t know what happened. The sun began torturing the moon. Everything visible was scraped with light. The peonies dripped petals in the hedge, and […]