The dad tossed the son in the pool, pajamas and all, at 6 am on a Saturday. The son flailed about, screaming under the water. He sunk lower and lower.…
On the day the girl’s heart broke she lay still on her bed. She arranged her hair behind her like a fan on the pillow, the way she’d done since…
When the cats came, they spoke to her. At their behest, the woman tamed them enough to touch them, and put out bowls of crunchy food and fresh water. They…
“The present data suggest that, despite their severe growth failure [extreme short stature], social integration and functioning may be satisfactory in ring chromosome 15 patients.” …
1. She wears her nose high, oil-slicked hair curling around a nest of bones. She’s built a throne out of all the books you’ll ever want to read, and you…
and poison sneaks out of frog skin, and Batman sneaks out of Bruce Wayne. Alleys sneak out of boulevards, and pennies sneak out of pockets. A baby sneaks out of…
you have to be a struck stillglowing lightning rod. hooves too wild to be shod. dawn your crown. dusk your purple husk. to the marrow a songsparrow. formed by thunderstorms.…
My words are more toad than diamond. I can feel them, sticky toed against my vocal cords their smooth wet bellies dragging against my tongue I can kiss all day…
As far as Peter was concerned, his grandmother might be right about the taxi drivers because he could swear the one who hesitated in front of their house last week…
I read a story about a girl who lassoed the moon, held it in her arms, and soothed it from the stars. If the moon needed soothing, I could not…
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