Orphan (n) Greek: Orphanos: fatherless: literally: deprived -Orbho: bereft from father My father is in the audience and he is smiling and he is a ghost and this scares you…
Do you swear this will never happen again, for the spell you cast has unmade me. Waiting and waiting for the nausea of betrayal to subside. No one remembers my…
Prairie Mama’s coming. You hear her heavy steps, slipping in those thick merino socks. Prairie Mama’s been grinding bones down to flour, and you don’t know if they’re the cat’s,…
Now, we take the sun, all of it. It lights up our insides; the smoke reaches our brains and leaves us wide eyed and dazed with no plans, we draw…
By the time we knew for sure that there were rats living in the kitchen of our apartment on Wrightwood, it was almost December and they had become as bold…
The body of a cat was found before the arm of a man was found under the back porch of an abandoned gingerbread house, on I Street in Washington, DC,…
What else can be said about the aftertaste of her alto? 170-proof vodka upstaged by its wispy twist of tangerine peel. Classical ballet performed in…
You always spoke of Peter, not with your lips or your adorable lisp from the gap in your teeth, but with your almond eyes; with every glance at the window…
I was a kid—five or six—and I remember the house we lived in had this big tree right outside my bedroom window. In the summertime, it was still light out…
There once was a house on a hill in a town with a steeple. Nine children had been born to the parents of that house and nine had been buried.…
Gingerbread House Lit Mag 