Her new habitat had been untouched for years. Decades, perhaps. The fauna orgiastically entwined around her form. Brittle branches...

One day the sky turned red and the public blamed it on the new Secretary of State for the Heavens. On the contrary, said the Secretary of...

Longing She wants a mother. Her brother’s. Caveman Two stones. Fire make. Hot, hot! Sonography Two hands. Two feet. Two horns. Hiccups...

While the lads Kurt used to play football with raised their glasses to toast his life, I hammered a For Sale sign into the lawn. My...

The House Ghosts All Read the Time Traveler’s Wife and Now Have Something They Want to Tell You The morning ghosts are subtle and...

I (23F) am looking for a ghost (M/F/NB, 21-99 at time of death, dead for <50 years) to haunt a 3-bedroom 3rd-floor apartment in Flatbush....

Same Old Story She hadn’t been looking for love. That’s what everyone says, she knows. But really, she hadn’t. She had side-stepped love....

What I should have said to him that night on the bridge is Don’t let go, but what I actually said is Do it and whether he would have done...

Every night Mother leaves a bath-towel by the kitchen fire, in case Oliver finds his way home. ‘He must be chilled to the marrow,’ she...

Crow abandoned the snow for another time, for leaves growing and horizontal. He walked until he came to a chinampa floating in the...

Sweet Softness of Dates She sits in her wicker chair, the one painted bright green because that’s how she likes it. She lets the sweet...

On the way home from the funeral, I drive past the guardrail where the accident took place, the striped tape flickering in the wind. I...

The Music Teacher For Negar Ighani We stood in a circle, patted our chests and thighs, sang and jumped then clapped. We rained, jumped...

The itchy dress and the rented colonial manor are ill-suited. Which is to say, they are not the right fit. Still, she stands obedient on...

On the way to the airport on the edge of the city, he had asked the driver to pull over. He needed a break, just a moment, from so much...

CW: references to violence Cheap Beer, Madden and Hold ‘em How would I have known there was so much more, just a kid with a 30 rack of...

'I didn't even want to come,' I moan. I walk up and down the beach, my bikini already dry, stopping to look at the burns covering my...

Boy Clouds of Xquic If she stays too long in the sea, she will see all her son’s bedroom wash by, shaking the trees. She heard he waited...

He sat in an all-night diner. A waitress who resembled Bela Lugosi crept then flew towards him. He was reading Ibsen, which he regretted....

He says we’re stressed, exhausted, I say that’s true but that’s life, he ponders, I don’t like life, he says, while he loves life, but...