It weighs as much as a grown man’s leg. Its shape, a torpedo. Imagine hauling a torpedo behind you on a stick with wheels, and with a swath of heat or hit of pressure, it can explode and destroy everything. But this torpedo gives me each step, each sentence, each...
Two of our votaries perched like hawks on the walkway, thirty feet above the driveway, in front of a limestone building constructed in 1868. Obadiah, the senior votary, impeccably attired in a dark blue suit, silk tie – the color of which befitted our calendar – and...
When Ba built the garage floor, no walls, no roof existed. White, large men drove in with a truck that housed a sideways rolling barrel; it churned liquid cement into a square, thin pool. The men and Ba settled the grey gruel, swept and spread it out with their...
Content warning: insects Mia wore weary like a perfectly fitted dress. The type of weary worn by women who let life live them instead of living it. You could see the fatigue all over her face. Even Mia’s outer eyes drooped so low that it sometimes blurred her vision,...
I never saw him blink – not once. His eyes were not eyes, so much as bottomless holes. He watched as I tossed an empty pill bottle into the trash by my bed. The soft clatter as it found its place among old vials and diabetic needles felt as familiar as a nubby old...
The fluttering in her stomach started at school when Brian scribbled Will you go out with me? on her textbook. It was Sunday now and the fluttering persisted. No one else was at home and she was glad since her mother could always read her every expression. No matter...
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