I have been so good. Look closely, you can see a halo. It’s a little rotted at the edges but it’s still good, still good, it just means the meat… Read more.

I would have seen the claw marks that I left as evidence of my effort to scrabble at the handle and have it catch. I can’t make you love me/I… Read more.

And i called myself a poet as a child and, with similes and sighs, made love and closeness such a momentous thing and  sex  was an abstract predetermined that would… Read more.

One of the petals falls off of the lilac in front of Fifteen and floats through the space between us. Read more.

Author’s Note: This piece was meant to create contrast between a far away, imagined idealised life and the cold grinding days that make up an ordinary life over generations. Early… Read more.