Once there were two massage therapists who fell in love and had a child named Julia. She was a sweet, loving child and she spoke with her hands just like…
because they look like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. But he doesn’t reply, and I see now that I’ve mixed my stories up at the start. My ex-husband is Kay, the…
Ball goes up, ball comes down. Like catching a rock, no give, no bounce, it drops with a smack. Blood pools under her lifeline and heartline, skin prickling and reddened.…
We will have cake, and you won’t see my trouble, you’ll only see your sister’s eyes as she looks on, the candle flames, the sweet. You’ll eat, you’ll pass the…
I went with him into the hole. I was trying to be with him, the way anyone might follow a lover, the one we hope would touch us in darkness.…
Man/woman/ man, Tiresias rated the female in bliss nine parts the victor and gave his eyes for his error in discretion; Jonah’s Leviathan hid in her strange name only hints…
I admit: the cup, the bend, the skin where your shoulder and neck met fitted my temple and my eye. Your blood warmed my ocular bone, my thighs still cold…
Everyone remembers when the animals broke loose. Tigers prowling through the midway. Snakes charmed by the spotlight at center ring. Chimpanzees storming the stilled Ferris wheel to reach the children…
Witch-healer Curandera ¿Tienes susto hija? Are you frightened? Ven pa’ aca … I will cure you. Primera visita: Smooth brown egg dipped in holy water, passed over her trembling body,…
An embarrassment on the scale of being saved by a lowly mouse was almost too much to bear, and made especially worse when the lion, who paid a lot of…
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