September 1, 2016
Degenerate Progenitors
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Texas Service Center Dallas, TX 26 May 2013 Dear District Director: My name is Sri Srinivasan, and I am the beneficiary of a pending […]
September 1, 2016
Good-bye, Saint Louis
The night after the police killed a boy in the streets, a luna moth appeared on the spokes of my bike. Its green wings translucent, bathed in light from the […]
July 1, 2016
Wintering Over
At first the old man hadn’t seen the creature so much as signs of its passage: vine maples moving contrary to the wind, a shadow shape-shifting above his cabin, a […]
May 1, 2016
We Unlovely, Unloved
You had a dream of playing the violin, or maybe it wasn’t your dream. Maybe it was the dream of a parent or dead grandparent channeled through you, displaced onto […]
May 1, 2016
Guadalajara
Celie ordered chapulines as an appetizer at dinner, which set off the expected commotion: ten sixteen-year-old girls daring each other to try it, Celie crunching a fried grasshopper with relish, […]
May 1, 2016
Three Insurrections
I went deep into the Wildlands one day and when they found me, I was near death. My flesh generated enough heat to keep a power plant going for a […]
March 1, 2016
Secret Lives of the Detainees
1. Ansar al-Banna Ansar al-Banna was the first prisoner to start screaming in his own cell, before anyone had touched him. His interviewers, for all their ingenuity, found themselves emptying […]
March 1, 2016
Don’t Let Your Bicycle Get Taken by a Thief
I only sit in two places when I go to Vera’s Thai Extra and one is in the window booth and the other is the table in the center, because […]
March 1, 2016
Visitation
Curt was in Bernadette’s Studio City apartment on a visitation. He picked the twins up, one in each arm, and crooned, “Do you still love me? Do you like me […]
March 1, 2016
Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin
After college, in the ’80s, Cecile remained in West Philly and Saul leased a studio in Center City, and they walked back and forth all night on the Walnut Street […]
January 1, 2016
Mi Amor, Mi China, Mi Delirio
1 Chicago, city of crabgrass and gleaming lakeshore, listen. Yanet was a bride when she first saw you, with a craving for babies like a craving for a smoke. She […]
January 1, 2016
Old Joke
Jules had meant to bring a bottle of wine to Hannah’s but there wasn’t any in the house, so he took the rest of the Scotch instead. He didn’t have […]