June 13, 2023
Robber’s Lake
Genius has this idea of fabricating his own diving bell so he can walk on the bottom of Robber’s Lake. He bear-hugs a five-gallon water jug from his dad’s storm […]
June 13, 2023
All’s Well
The cat arrives just before the virus. Winnie, the social worker, shows up with a box that she struggles to unload from the passenger seat of her car. Jan, ninety-one […]
June 13, 2023
Bonfire
My therapist suggested I get out and see friends as much as possible, so I said yes when my friend Claire invited me to a bonfire up in Enfield, even […]
June 13, 2023
The Good Sport
The Kenyon Review · The Good Sport In any social group of women, there is often one member whom the others dislike, not because she has done anything wrong or […]
April 7, 2023
Pareidolia
2022 Short Fiction Contest Runner-up The sky is injured, sliced with red. The power lines whisper rain. Evening clouds form wispy m’s overhead, like a child’s drawing of birds. There […]
April 4, 2023
Two House Cats, Bearing News
The baby is four years old already. Soon Alex will have to stop calling her “the baby.” Her name is Abigail. She doesn’t like to be called “Abby,” which is […]
April 4, 2023
Baboons
The Kenyon Review · “Baboons” by Susan Shepherd The policeman called Piper’s cell to say her dog was in her truck in Roxbury, and he was going to have to […]
April 4, 2023
The Snail
The Kenyon Review · “The Snail” by Isabelle Burden When it rained, our Brooklyn neighborhood smelled like peat moss and wet pavement, and a hundred garden snails would flood the […]
April 4, 2023
The Bear
I was sitting on the cabin’s porch watching the moon rise between two tall pines and H was in the kitchen making hot chocolate when there was a noise in […]
April 4, 2023
Two-Headed Dog
黒歴史 In today’s disaster drill, Brian was forced to wear a cardboard-and-twine sign that stated his assigned role: foreigner. “Don’t use Japanese, please,” the VP of Kesennuma Junior High directed […]
April 4, 2023
A Diagram of the Two Sexes
When we think of the differences between the sexes, a mental diagram tends to emerge. This diagram can be highly variable. Many have found that the diagram changes according to […]
April 4, 2023
Tumbleweed
The Kenyon Review · “Tumbleweed” by Ao Omae (translated by Emily Balistrieri) In the sleepy West, a run-down bar is turning sepia colored. In front of it, two men turn […]