When the women slip into the lake, their legs coalesce and grow slippery with scales, a skin so unlike their own. They embrace, exploring the way their bodies feel entwined…
Climb into it, why not? You’re already in bed. Instead of saying things to yourself, let the self powder the head, russet colored slipping, like when girls and boys were kissing…
In the village near the Prince’s summer house, there lived a Seamstress known and feared for her wisdom and skill. The Seamstress had only ever asked God for one thing:…
Their child died, murdered with gunfire, alongside the children of their neighbors, the children of people they’d never met, the adults who taught them and coached them. The gunman died…
A woman is married to a bucket of rain water. Introduced by mutual friends, she was taken by her suitor’s courtesy, a quality she had found lacking in the men…
Galatea was once an ivory tusk. She curved skyward, white smooth sickle under an elephant lip. This was the African interior, drier than Cyprus, wilder, blazed gold with grasses. The…
Before I became the Keeper of Secrets, before I even knew that the Keepers were real, or that I would one day join them, my mother would tell me stories…
Berkie Dunham stomps on the wet sidewalk reflections of the UFOs. They hover ten feet above the street, monitoring everyone. He knows they’re taking note of the way he walks,…
She had a laugh like summer, Lacie thought. There was something not quite real about her, something strange and sweet and shivering in the way she swept through the tinkling…
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,…
