Indie Night at the Goth Club
How many times can we put on a costume until it is no longer a costume?
Prose
Wild Thing
We married for necessity, not love, and when we tired of our husbands, we dispatched them quietly in the night.
The Fruits of Riverview Boulevard
At first, you place the fruit very methodically around the house. A mango in the microwave. Limes replacing lightbulbs. A grapefruit in the coffee pot.
Going Home: Gone Home, Found Family, and Pulse
They had changed enormously in the time I’d been gone. They’d endured an enormous loss without me. They had mourned without me. They had come together to heal - memorials, tributes, fundraisers, vigils, community service drives - all without me.
The Bees
It was the first week into her second trimester, and here she was, smoking a cigarette and filling her stomach with bees.
How the Devil Finds Out
It happened on the corner of 147thand Miller, beneath the long branches of an oak hanging over the corner. It happened often enough— usually to white kids crossing U.S.1 in front of the University of Miami or other tourists on The Beach—but seldom in this residential area, and never on this intersection.
Ha Ha! Very Funny
In which two unrepentant teenagers run amok in Fort Myers, FL.
Mi Papa, Mi Cuerpo
As the burning sensation in my stomach became an addiction, days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months. I felt empowered by my starvation.
What Blood
Mr. Chuck Stonehill walked over from next door and told me he found a tackle-box, a bullet, and a rubber by the picnic table in the backyard under the palm tree between our rusting beach trailers.
Schnozzle
I was so innocent that my first thought was he didn’t know he was exposed. But the way he was staring at me so fixedly soon made me realize it was on purpose.