Ghost Parachute

Make sure the embryo doesn’t think of pecking through its shell which you plan to crush into powder and mix in a smoothie to stave off osteoporosis. If it starts to dream of breaking through its encasement, it won’t be long before blood vessels form in the yolk and eyelids cover the eyeball. Make sure […]

It was very hot outside, like it had been all week and most of the month — burning up lizard carcasses into husks, causing concerns about the elderly, forcing cold showers on people. Colin thought it was very hot. He couldn’t sleep. His eyes burned as he stared at the little blank space above his […]

Despite all odds, she keeps the rabbit alive. It’s a giant rabbit. Flemish. Bigger than the cats ever got and much quieter. Quiet is how they survive out here, amongst empty farmhouses and fields that ought to be full of corn this time of year, but just as well the corn is gone. All those […]

Eleanor Rigby walks into the church, as she does every Sunday, but he’s not there. Wearing her uniform: thick cardigan sweater, fleece vest with penguin pattern. What’s there, instead? Empty pews, smelly candles, Christmas wreaths. A young woman alone in the corner of the church, praying. Father Donovan presides. When she sees his name on […]

You are an idea the moment your father and mother have too much whisky and they trust god to protect them as they sin in the backseat of your father’s father’s car and there is a future unthreading itself and a new future threading itself in the seven minutes it takes for the moment to […]

In a long lull between voters, Lacey told about her son’s pants ripping from belt to inseam, no underpants. “It happened at Chipotle in front of God and the police. I told that boy about getting seen at Chipotle but he bent down anyway.” The traffic through the Armory polling station had been unusual. Typically, […]