Short Story
Hunger
One writer’s fictional account of a relationship between two people with opposite eating disorders.
Time with grandmother
A morning spent with her grandmother makes Tanya take another look at herself.
Five, Six, Seven
I like to play music, just like Grandpa. When I grew out of my baby chair I turned it on its back side and made a drum.
Greeting cards
He’d been scribbling for so long that the beige envelope was starting to rot into the table, growing roots with each punctuated bleed from the pen. It was clearly an apology card.
Playground
The older kids went in there and burned things. We never talked about why burning things was reason for alarm, but we did know they had built a tree house in the middle of the woods.
A marinade for Madame Butterfly: recipe for a date to the opera
Curtain time: five minutes, Walk time: not enough, Yield: A stable relationship.
From a work in progress temporarily being called: ‘Dear David, I’m Rescuing Diana,” concerning the Megabus (Vol. iii of iii)
And then it was extra quiet … as if something dense had been sucked from the atmosphere.
From a work in progress temporarily being called “Dear David: I’m Rescuing Diana,” concerning the Megabus (vol. ii of iii)
He was frightening in sort of a Denzel Washington-when-he-means-business-type way.
From a work in progress temporarily being called “Dear David: I’m Rescuing Diana,” concerning the Megabus (Vol. i of iii)
Riding the midnight Megabus doesn’t count as having slept.
