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You will not look straight in the mirror, except when you are told to do so.  You will forget.  You will forget.  You will forget […]

After dinner, I’m cleaning dishes. There’s a witch in the backyard burying something in the garden—probably someone’s heart—when my children start screaming and biting each […]

My grandmother’s dress washes up on the shore. Which shore? Not sure. I never saw her near water while she and I were at the […]

The Final Girl Looks for a Summer Job She scans the classifieds in The Merchandiser, knowing that her options are limited. She can’t be a day […]

I promised the 52-hertz whale that the world was ready for him. We just had to make some changes. I promised him that “the loneliest […]

I’ve become partial, a blip, a dim light that the interaction between my conscious and unconscious convulsions scraped alive under the influence of reality television. […]

Your mother is asking for your things back, my love. Your cashmere sweaters, your crockpot, your gold ring that once belonged to your father. As […]

The structure of “Does the Pig?” is full of rhythm–it’s almost hypnotic, the way we keep going back to the same event and learn something […]

I’ve got a Roy Batty doll that I keep next to my bed. He’s got white hair that sticks out at his widow’s peak, deep […]

Kali was one of the dogs I checked in on throughout that summer. Her owner was a short man with a long-distance fiancée and I […]