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…
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.…
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…
The day we returned home from our family vacation was the day before we found household items growing in our garden. We pulled into our driveway at 8:12 p.m. The…
Rain fell the day he went to the shore, to see the place where his wife left him. Grey weighted the clouds like sacks full of stones, sagging closer and…
The boy I love has a swan’s wing for an arm. He is one of seven brothers who was cursed and lived as swans till their baby sister came and…
When she was a child they lived, Mother, Grandmother, and Girl, all in one house in the woods. Two small rooms, one big bed, three sets of ten toes wiggling…
Sometimes when you wake in the night and hear the rain and the seaplanes going over and see their red lights flashing outside the window, the feeling is stored inside…
The ocean came for us, but only wanted you. I haven’t seen my brother since we were very young. He asked me how far I thought I could swim in…
The beast lived all alone in the tower, and she was monstrous. The tower was grown over with thorn bushes, in the center of a wild wood. From the tower,…