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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 […]

Strike a match, light a candle, here we go. In this version of the story, the messenger urges his horse on, faster faster, away from […]

Kumquat It started simply, with a wish: “I wish every word was as fun as ‘kumquat’.” “That’d be fun,” I replied. Later that week, when […]

Now voices are silent, like stilled wind-chimes or green mold. Before it all went kaput, crash, boom, there were whispers about the carved-out-of-soft-pine-wood boy who […]

While sitting at the bar I see your doppelganger. She’s peeling a garniture orange at the table beside the one where the man with tight […]

Flight Your green eyes are butterflies. Your long eyelashes are their trillion legs. “Foom foom,” I say, flapping my hands at your head. We will […]

Human, be honest—you’ve mistaken us for the living. Even the wisest and most steely among you catch yourselves wondering if we haven’t shifted against our […]