I’m Aware that when I do all the dog walks at night, I should carry my car keys. That my job is laced with sloppy kisses, but just under...

I’m at my first court-mandated anger management meeting when a woman with frosted pink lipstick bleeding into her smoker’s lines leans in...

I sat in the hospital waiting room in my full regalia — blue sequins chafing my thighs while the cut tee I was wearing made me a bit too...

after Remedios Varo’s painting Mimesis I have become the focus of my tabby cat, Mimesis. She will ignore flies and mice, but rather than...

Content Warning: Suicide/Death 13th of October 1989 was the day mum vacuumed the Lego. I remember the date, because it was the day after...

On a mild night in late August, my mother dropped us off outside of the stadium, handed me twenty dollars, and went on her way. I looked...

Monster in the Stairwell at Work The elevator at work won’t reach the top floor, so I take it as far as it’ll go and find the stairs, and...

CW: mention of miscarriage It’s the tilt of her head that catches your attention first. Such an attitude! You envy her for a fleeting...

We sell popcorn. It’s our job, even if it’s not a sufficient economic provider. We abide by rules and maintain standards and report to an...

My nana used to have a patio at her apartment that was full of lush, green potted plants.  I remember her taking such pride in opening...

It’s September and I’m ten years old and eating a Sabrett hot dog at Shea as the Mets lose to the Expos. The 1992 Mets may have gone down...

We’re in your garden eating dried apricots when you tell me you’re moving to France. I straighten my spine, swallow the waxy fruit. “I...

After a year at Alliance Northeast, I'd buy a car. Become like everyone else at AN who takes the subway though they could drive to work....

She’s out here again, head bowed, trying to scrape up our dead skin cells. Or maybe not skin, but hair or coughed-up fragments of lung....

1. When Madee and I split, all I thought about was the language we lost. Words that I was no longer allowed to speak because they were...

“They’re here again. Alfred! Can you bloody believe it?” I twitch open the curtains, “The girl is licking the walls, does nobody teach...

The photos sparkle as they fall, the birthday candles and wedding cakes and fireworks and nightclubs and rainbows. I scoop a baby shower...

It began with a subtle tightening in my throat. The middle-aged man in the grocery store queue placed his hand on my midsection with...

On Cadence’s 12th birthday, as she blew out the candles on her cake, one of her uncles told her it was time she learned to smile. The...

The neighborhood infiltrated us, penetrated our skin, became an invisible infection coursing in our blood. The narrow streets and cracked...