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“The patient is under, doctor,” I said, even though Teddy’s sparkly, plastic eyes were forever open. My sister wore the neighbor’s thick olive gardening gloves, […]

As a family we have rules. Avoid the couch and the carpet. Aim for the sink, the tile floor, the backyard. Carry a tourniquet. We […]

The man in the moon spends a lot of time looking down on Earth. He likes it best when the people he can see on […]

I don’t see him anymore, not in the flesh, there’s just a cutout of him now. Him and everyone else in the city. Everyone except […]

Remember the recharge time. A minute and one.  A lot can happen in that time. Microjumps, they say. Alternate realities at the speed of what-if. […]

The silver stork plucked my daughter Salma from the porch of our 1860 colonial during a downpour last July.  It was our thing; sitting and […]

“I think there’s something moving down there”  You couldn’t tell there were three of them at first, not until they had almost cleared the courthouse […]

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 […]