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As in walking down them.  As in they open into corridors and aren’t tight at all.  You can’t stick a bed in them, but a […]

The Cult of Kukulkan  Last night I lowered myself into a well. I spent the night in a serpent’s mouth, speaking to a god. Come […]

—Like the laundry: I really couldn’t get a grip on that last load. I had decided to dump everything in all at once (there was […]

They’d told us it would be peaceful; natural.  Well, natural for us—peaceful for them. Peaceful to sit in the shadow of our green growth, lost […]

The local hawk froze in midair to make sense of such a sound—the sound of Canoe realizing the patter of rain against tin. Tin and […]

When the rakshasa moved into the bungalow, he decided this would be his peacock room. He filled the space with emerald and sapphire. Feather bouquets […]

The Color Naming Committee was in session. Things were going well. They had decided on the big ones. Purple was the sound of a train […]

In school, they teach about the Orgy of Actium, where Mark Antony made Octavian his power bottom, while Cleopatra, for posterity’s sake, hieroglyphed the whole […]

Three fists are stacked, hand over hand, on a pole in this train in The City.  I. Simone never says much. She lives days without […]

A sun rises out of my grandfather’s garden, in between the tomato plants. He shouldn’t have risen, not at this hour. Gray, humid skies hang […]