The noise my brothers made as they got out of bed would wake me up most mornings. There were four of us in the one room, split between two sets of bunk beds. Two of my brothers had to get up early six days out of seven and head down to the brewery for their shifts. I...
I’m visiting my parents. The coffee tastes like COVID and the soap smells like me trying my hardest. Rolling out my yoga mat on the floor, I remember all the times I’ve been here before. In this house and home, in this practice of breathing, stretching, and...
The islets look like turtles with mossy backs, sleeping breathless in the placid lake. Nothing stirs. The Arctic summer has flooded the sky and erased the landmarks between hours and days. I walk around in a daze, wide-eyed, not knowing how tired I am, like a child...
It started out in uncontained excitement. The sky was incomprehensible, vision compromised by a thick white fog that blanketed almost every inch of the environment. The trees, the grass, the red soil, the landmarks – everything, it seemed, had been sucked up by the...
She had learned to read for this outing, but that didn’t stop her from ignoring the sign stuck to the window. The glass was solid, stoic beneath her clammy hands. The delicate clouds of condensation left by her fingertips were almost enough to fascinate her. Almost....
A squealing giggle broke through the radio static for a moment, making the laughter sound older than it might have been. ‘You’re coming home,’ it whispered as Lucy and Sawyer drove down the highway, the only light coming from their car. Weeds had even started to push...
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