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“Thick Glass,” “Twist the Blade,” “Pink Paint,” and “Good Boy, Kyu”
thick glass three weeks and the shards were still there still scattered on the tiles of the kitchen floor that was a thick glass meant for classy…
Luminaria, Chapter 2: The Proposition — Hannah, Part 1
I knew I’d had hit rock bottom the day I found myself considering Ariyan’s proposition. He made it at Le Relais Basque, a café down a side street…
“A Certain Elegance,” “Dead Bodies Floating in the Ocean,” and “The Last Day of School”
a certain elegance the old piano your delicate fingers playing something from a few centuries ago there is a certain elegance with how you glide…
Lead Us Not Into Temptation
Reverend Samuel Powell stood before his church’s pulpit, his fist raised as he began raining fire and brimstone down upon his congregation. The…
The Newest Neighbor
Exploring on and off the water was as delightful as we had hoped in the early years in our new home. New people and places filled our days as we…
Exhibit
Dedicated to Gabe. *** We offer these extracts from the diary of Professor Luke Oliver in an attempt to explain his disappearance following his…
“No Names,” “Oh, This Grimy Laugh,” “I Scribbled a List of Things,” and “Love is a Killing Thing”
No Names You cannot see the dead unless you look out a window---behind you---from a mirror---where you see yourself looking out…………over your shoulder…
Missing Teeth
I know this is going to sound weird. This is why I’m doing this in my journal. I do this for several reasons. I do it longhand because I don’t trust…
Three Religious Poems
Minor Seminary The ghostly weight of cassocks hanging on doors---the slight drag of polyester in the air, draped shapes without heads or hands or…
The Garden of Eden
For the longest time, I tried to understand my own purpose. I used to look up at the stars and feel somehow I was in the wrong place. The Gnostics…
