February 28, 2020
Proverbs
Men who noticed them assumed they were brothers, while women thought them sisters. A phenomenon: sibling strays who wandered the city together, mutts born with near identical markings. Their white […]
February 28, 2020
Cold War Kirby
I bought Imani a green anole with some money I earned shoveling snow. She named him Gex. He was ribs-thin with a needle-sharp nose and turned brown or green whenever […]
February 28, 2020
[Introduction]
The morning after Britain’s general election, as Boris Johnson is elected prime minister, I work at an antique schoolhouse desk in a Victorian house in the Midlands. At the old […]
February 28, 2020
The Last Afternoon
Shana has been watching a soda bottle spill strawberry liquid across the subway car floor without a soul intervening. The train is stuffed with wooly coats and puffy jackets, body […]
February 28, 2020
Sweat
Lotrece woke up dripping sweat the night her marriage ended. The ceiling fan hummed above her, and she could feel the central air conditioning blowing full blast. The room was […]
February 28, 2020
The Unwilding
Tonight Flora will free her twin brother from his cage. Their mother zonks herself out on sleeping pills every night, but Dad’s so soft a dozer that a single jangle […]