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No dreams The people in their beds are awoken by an energetic and urgent barking. It is far too late and far too cold for […]

Such heat. Even the vultures roosted listlessly in the shade, waiting for the release of death or rain. The pavement burned my dog’s tender feet. […]

Catchphrase I heard this woman say, “I’m coming. Why are you calling?” and I thought something was wrong with that. I don’t know why she […]

We decide to kill Aunt Miriam. We have already done everything else. We have played Monopoly. We have read hospital magazines. We have made tribal […]

Old Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years. The man was tired. There aren’t enough syllables in words for how tired […]

The goldfish lived in a small apartment with a single window on the top floor of a brick building. Inside the apartment, nothing was alive […]

They were already among us. Unheard-of numbers swimming into bays and inlets, and some found their way into freshwater lakes and rivers. Tagged ones disappeared […]

I’ve known you since you were born, which was when I was born. I’m your evil twin. Everyone has one.  I was a part of […]

We should’ve been looking when the clouds turned floofy, furry and then patchy–black, brown, stripy, orange. “Look Mama, Look Daddy, look at the clouds,” the […]

The mammoth crouches behind her desk, which is not as neat as she’d like it to be, and shuffles through papers until she finds a […]