*CW: This piece contains references to suicide.    The mirror over the sink in the bathroom tells me I do not exist. I know I

Until then I wanted to love you, but I wasn’t sure I could.  You grew inside me, expanding my belly to an impossible mound. From

We are in Tangle. Fierce, heat and sweat and pumping blood. Skin singing, fingertips tracing jawline and collarbone and pelvis, easing, deep breaths, slow and

September 3 Dear Diary: I cannot believe that I am doing this.  It seems like such a 12-year-old girl thing to do – Dear Diary

Thanksgiving had just ended when the weather report predicted a major snowfall overnight. With the Midwesterner’s prescience of being snowed in (and possibly losing electric

Ray Martin lay prone on the shag carpet of his living room and waited for the Japanese army to move in on him. Outside, the

After you called, I put the tea kettle on and sat in the kitchen. I like watching the steam curl up, slender and sinewy, from

The parking lot is hot. Humid too, which is abnormal for these parts. We circle the facility, searching for the way in.  There’s a desk,

My mother hadn’t spoken to me since she woke me up at eight.  “Wake up,” she’d said. “It’s time.” Then she closed the door to

  She was halfway into her seat before he looked up from his phone. “Hello, Frank. They’ve changed the name of the restaurant. Antoine’s now.”

The beer he handed me was half empty. I thought the bottle was sweating, but since the liquid was room temperature, it must have been

“Who’s Dick?” “What? What dick?” “No, Who’s Dick.” “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Whose dick?” “Just listen to what I’m saying. Who. Is.

I sigh, frustrated as I lay on my bed in the semi-darkness, the light from my phone illuminating my face showing to anyone who might

  She said she used coffee grounds to fertilize her plants. “Really?” I said. “Coffee grounds,” she said, “Here, want a sniff?” She thrust a

  His arm still aches when the air is cold.  The shoulder tightens, the muscles tense as though they still have a job to do.