November 6, 2025
A Ghost of Powder
On Southern summer days, I think about bosoms. We don’t use that word much anymore, likely because no one wanted to have bosoms when we were young. The word sounded […]
November 5, 2025
Histories of the Undead
May 1909. A man named John M. Whiteford, born in Germany, dies from a brain hemorrhage on Brooklyn’s Willoughby Avenue, a few blocks south of the address where I’d live […]
November 4, 2025
Buying Time
For most of the period I now call “lockdown,” I’d get weekly calls, not from my brother, exactly, but from an automated voice representing Securus, the communications technology firm his […]
July 25, 2025
The Trying
Write the van. How when a friend eventually realized or admitted or accepted that the cancer would kill her, she bought a van. How the living room filled with faux […]
July 25, 2025
Sonoran Desert Toad
If I loved anything at all about Tucson, it was the animals. I had found myself a stranger there, dislocated in my own home — newly a stepmom, sudden family with a […]
July 25, 2025
Fontanelle
The life force of an infant is pulsing right underneath their scalp in a place that will be hard but isn’t yet. At first it’s difficult to focus on. It’s […]
July 25, 2025
Good Boy (a trans lyric)
At the dinner table, everyone is singing, you feel the rhythm, like stitches in the fabric of genetics and genre, the constraints of belonging, but nobody’s thinking about it that […]
July 24, 2025
The Wild in the Fire and the Fire in the Mind
The mind is burning, ideas are burning, mind-consciousness is burning, mind-contact is burning, also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with mind-contact for its indispensable […]
July 24, 2025
Emotionally Self-Aware Adoptive Parent: Contract for Services
The Kenyon Review · “Emotionally Self-Aware Adoptive Parent: Contract for Service” by Nik Chang Hoon
July 22, 2025
Two Veterans
It is 1962. Or 1967. Two veterans sit at the bar of the Balboa Yacht Club, drinking in the wake of their friend Hank’s death. The first, an Army veteran, […]