On the medical examiner’s table: Women’s bodies. Wolves’ bodies. Rigor-mortis limbs like life-size dolls. Blood-matted fur flayed over...

1. You are not the tangled Spider Plant your seventy-five-year-old foster mom (five worlds ago) made you water every day. So stop sending...

Green glowing eyes peered through the letterbox at me. I crouched so she could see that it was me. We stared at each other for sometime...

Forget this is number eighteen, circled red on the calendar. Forget you are sweaty, can’t be picky, sit down huffily, a storm of skin now...

Matthew waited in the toilet cubicle and listened to who didn’t wash their hands. Someone had stood by the door but Matthew sniffed to...

It was a misty, rainy night when it appeared. I sat in my car, feet up in the passenger seat, sipping a coffee as I admired the view. A...

In waking moments, she dreamt of only blue skies. A rolling summer like the hills on her bedsheets. Time still to share with the body...

The thing to know about this beach is that it is flat, extremely flat. But you don’t start there. First, you have to burn your feet on...

Janet wandered slowly down the street; she had an hour before she had to meet Mandy for lunch at Sushi Supreme. Her eyes roamed over the...

The ice house raised out of the blank desert canvas like a wart, larger and uglier than everything around it, a boil on the finger of...