Kermit was a frog-faced boy, arguably prince of the court pages, or a prince-turned-page; it didn’t matter, he was simply there, and I never considered paying him any attention. He…
Once upon a time, there was a little girl. Her mother called her ‘beauty queen’, ‘the prettiest girl of all’. When they were done with the day’s work, they went…
Swarming comets & comments moons too many mouths twisting & still speaking in seven flicks of tongue seven tremors one of seven dead girls bodies all hyperextended joints & angles…
1. Barely a woman and already cloaked in red. He can smell it, and so can They, the stench of fresh blood trickling between her thighs. Her gown was once…
Draped in a long, heavy robe the color of a starless sky, she raised her knotted hands above her head, resembling in her fury, an enormous bird of prey. The…
She squints slightly as she applies the final touches to my face, smoothing wrinkles, manufacturing magic with a sprinkled sparkle in just the right spot. Our foreheads kiss for a…
It’s dark inside the witch. Gretl’s body is disjointed. Dismembered. In the process of being eaten, she was reduced to her component parts, until she was only bits that are…
When the mothers have been sauced, when the stepsisters have been cauldroned, we are left with the fathers. The fathers have never hurt us by way of hand, but they…
I went out back and found my father standing under the apple tree. He at least had the decency to look embarrassed. You trying to sell me to the devil…
The house stood on the corner of Texas Avenue and Jackson Street right across from Minute Maid Park. It was built in the back lot behind Annunciation Catholic Church, shining…
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