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(Scarecrow jurors made from twigs and grass; homunculi witnesses molded out of forest loam. Red Riding Hood, dwarfed like a shrub among pines, defendant without […]

Éamonn waits for me in the last pew. The scent of Marlboros clings to his black leather jacket. His green eyes plead a promise he can’t […]

You’ll find there is nothing more terrifying than feeling Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown in the bookdrop. The cover’s cutaway allows a tuft […]

When Dora is asleep, she sees hummingbirds hovering behind her eyelids. When she awakens, Dora spends her days sitting in an old chair placed in […]

When I wake up, my central incisor is a rhinoceros. My lip gets hooked on its horn. My husband says, what now? My dentist says, […]

He picks up dirt with one arm. And then another. The suckers on each limb grab at the dirt, and he throws it in waves […]

<3 My Boyfriend by Nancy Huang <3 <3 The Seeds That They Bury, the Fields That They Reap by Mike McClelland <3 <3 Carmen and […]

My boyfriend makes things easy. My boyfriend loves my cat. My boyfriend once chewed through a whole jawbreaker. My boyfriend smells like pine. My boyfriend […]

“How many bones can you fit into a hole full of oil?” Ben asks.“Keep going until see you white,” I tell him.Ben’s wheelbarrowing bones into […]

Carmen and I used to do this thing where we’d wish for body dysmorphia. We thought we looked like monsters. We wished for it all […]