The Shedding
I found the skin on my third day. Up until then, I hadn't encountered much of anything within my purview, expected or otherwise. The ranger I'd been seated beside at…
Bird Catcher • We Are Golden • Umbels
Bird CatcherThe woman who trained her hair to snarebirds had needed to spool it long and sinewylike mooring rope. So so long it rolled below her bum, her knees, her…
The Tribulations of Felipe Guerra
When the first miseries fell upon Felipe, he was twenty-two. After he’d been drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam, he had stepped on a punji stick covered in pig…