What does one think when one sees a dead friend at the supermarket? You feel the now familiar skip of your heart as you catch her in the corner of your eye, your brain swirling with hope and its twin agony acceptance. This isn’t the first time in the last few months you mistook another […]
October 2016 Issue
Dinosaur World
Neither Rebecca or Drew could be certain the exact moment in which they decided the cute local newspaper boy had to go. Seething resentment just kind of crept up over time, until eventually, they started fantasizing about his ten-year-old skull crushed by a random piano falling out of the sky, a Mac truck swerving just […]
Lobsters
While mom boiled live, shrieking lobsters, I stood on a chair playing Bug Civil War with the dead sill-flies and other insects and arachnids, getting them all lined up on opposite sides of the tall kitchen window. “All I’m saying,” Grandpa was saying, “is that if you expect to raise reasonably intelligent children, you shouldn’t […]
