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Do not touch the Zorro books in the garage. You could release the Masked Rider. You think you don’t know him, but you do. He […]

It was another brewery tour for Jared and me. The fifth since we’d been married. Or was it sixth? I can’t remember. We were at […]

I plant brains out back to help me think. I can’t say whose. In the mornings, I pour coffee over their folds and sprinkle the […]

Does the pig run?  Does the pig run and jump over the fence?  Does the pig, fleeing the farmer, run toward the fence, to jump […]

Bitstream (The Body Keeps Score) rewindsequence painprotection wraptransference scarcitydenial mumbledata dreambones chucklepoint A bitstream is something like a transference of data. A succession of layers all […]

The Dark Staircase  The dark staircase leads to nothing. But we take it every once in a while, to another possible fate. Silently, a figure […]

The waiter cleared the table outside the cafe’s front door and slipped two mint-green paper menus onto two white plates. I opened my mouth to […]

At first, her ghosts are just shapes, but in time, they grow into themselves. Her sister cuts her bangs, and her husband starts writing lyrics […]

He mailed the paperwork when I was still an orca. The hungry days. Unyielding seasons of screaming water. Mother obsessed over deciphering their sound, preoccupied […]

Axolotl The shell’s tomb, the materials breathe.The darkness of matter is bottomless.–Aase Berg Perhaps in 1839 Johann Jakob von Tschudi meant to crown you blunt mouth. Did you […]