The Functions of Nests
Although I have five clients for housecleaning, Marjorie is the one who keeps me on a regular schedule. Others hire me pre-birthdays, pre-holidays, pre-fancy-ish dinners at home, whenever they can…
Firstborn • Runaway • Texts from My Brother
Firstborn for Stella I meet you in a doorway and invite you inside me to dance in every room I have wept in. Rooms the shape and texture of my…
Tumaini La Maisha
It all started with the assassination of the radical political heroine and the civil war that followed. According to Mom, it was the shortest war that the country…
The Circumference • Sequence of Events
The Circumference every circle is perfect on the good days. and there are no bad days, God tends to the circles like the bee tends to the flower, and everything…
The Musical Chairs Tragedy
When the music stops someone doesn't get a chair. It's a simple description of a game that's been played for more than three centuries…
Notes from the Session
Dr. Milton shot himself in the head. How many times do I have to write this? Dr. Milton shot himself and there was blood all over the floor. I don’t…
Experimental Prompting
There is a dick-shaped shadow on the wall, and I can't figure out which object is casting it. Oh well. Gender is like that. The magic-8-ball predicts I will die…
Touch
Content warning: sexual violence --- Phil dreaded going to church, so he said he had a stomachache. Dad said if he missed church, no going out to…
dearest great aunt Zelda,
i saw bands of wild turkeys strutoutside of your wide room windowlike mafia bosses of the nursing home yardhuge & dangerousseverely long legs friskyover the grey stone wallfree of the…
Ebb and Flow
The tide was going out. Maggie sat facing the ocean reading her book and turning over the sand with her feet. From time to time, she stopped to figure out…