May 1, 2015
All the Sons of Cain
After they find out where she lives, they start coming every week, sometimes every day. Wednesday morning they come especially early, waking her. R’s mother stays in bed, yearning for […]
May 1, 2015
Puck’s Here
“My God, Zoe! Look at your house. Look at the lawn! Look at everything! You’ve got the perfect life.” Zoe’s old friend Cynthia screamed these things from the passenger seat […]
March 1, 2015
The Grant Pill
Even before she said anything, I knew she wasn’t my actual mother. As a boy the contrast between our appearances struck me: my broad cheekbones and straight black bangs seemed […]
March 1, 2015
Triptych
… while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then […]
March 1, 2015
A Prerogative
Ehrlich was not an unhappy man. It had been an easy morning commute, the Pacific air rinsed clean by an early rain. A cheerful few hours at his desk, all […]
March 1, 2015
North Bay Hotel
It was Magnus who called about the seal, more upset than Mara would have thought. She stood at the hotel sink, holding the cordless phone. She had been pouring potatoes […]
January 1, 2015
Monocot
He served a few years in the Merchant Marine and so named his sons Anchor, Hawser, and Rudder. The names amused him. The boys didn’t come to much. The eldest […]
January 1, 2015
Go Back
One morning I stepped out of the shower and began toweling myself off, only to discover that just one of my legs was shaved. The right hand one. I thought […]
January 1, 2015
Dead Dresses
It being an odd day, they meet on Emmilloni’s bunk, Emmi being the odd one. Tomorrow, they meet on Anniloni’s bunk, Anni being the even one. Brannilini, up top, is […]
January 1, 2015
Three Parts of Hunger
The lion we called the “old man” was rail thin with ribs bulging like so many horns of animals he had devoured in a deep past that no longer belonged […]
October 1, 2014
The Siege at Whale Cay
Georgie woke up in bed alone. She slipped into a swimsuit and wandered out to a soft stretch of white sand Joe called Femme Beach. The Caribbean sky was cloudless, […]
October 1, 2014
She
She’d been homeschooled for ten years, whipped for eleven, and tomorrow she would celebrate her fifteenth birthday. That’s why she’d come to Los Angeles, to turn fifteen alone and free […]