Month: April 2022

  • The Judgment

    The Judgment

    I waited by the door to watch the light below the crack divide in two, then three…

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  • Maddy & Ann

    Maddy & Ann

    Ours was the blue house on Donnelly. We weren’t the kind for cucumber & dill. It was takeout, with Ann’s hours, or fish sticks. We tried to be good, responsible married folk, but more nights than not I would drive home the crinkly bag from Joy Luck and salivate through the yellow lights to the…

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  • The Bent Ones

    The Bent Ones

    * * * I won’t win your understanding. I don’t care to. Mark my horrors and tell your children of them. See if they mind you better. See if they run. The servant pours. Wine with orange peel fragrances the banquet hall. No one smells poison except the dogs, who whine at their master’s feet.…

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  • Creatures of Habit

    Creatures of Habit

    Toast was burnt. It flaked over the eggs, all milk and cheese, the way he liked. His fork scratched the ruins while the locals bristled. They were prone to distrust him. With dirty nails, fish smell, and napkin tucked in his shirt front, the Croat appeared an older cut of man best left in photographs,…

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