I have a thing for blind people. “Everybody’s got a thing,” says Stevie Wonder, but I don’t think he’s talking about the same thing I’m talking about. I think he’s talking about sex. My thing isn’t sexual and I’ve never actually had sex with a blind person, though I did come pretty close once with … Continue reading
Tag Archives: 2015
It’s 85 Degrees in Orlando — emm borgerding
A string of teeth marks aligning with your ribs, I kissed them and promised revenge, a shotgun down the mouth of a gator, my ankles deep in thick clay stained red with yankee blood. The buzz of mosquitoes in the air almost as thick as the heat, spreading sweat from navel to collar bone. We … Continue reading
The Lighthouse Ensemble — Nick Bertelson
– For Andrew I first met Mr. Roland on a crummy night. The wind blew the neighbor’s leaves into my yard and rainwater rushed down the gutter, reflecting the streetlights. I was smoking a cigarette beneath my umbrella when I saw what had to be the only other person out on a … Continue reading
Truck — Kirsten Nelson
I remember when they built this mall. It was 1954, and there was a week straight that July when the temperature wouldn’t fly under 99 degrees, but I can’t remember where I parked my truck. I remember buying June a new pair of earrings after the jewelry store opened up. I brought them home in … Continue reading
A Little Something-Something — Leslie Pietrzyk
Kate would not remind the Bakers that the day of her visit was also her birthday. It was probably bad enough that she was visiting, their dead son’s wife, showing up to—what? Remind them that David was still dead? He had died in a boating accident in June, four months ago, and this visit to … Continue reading
A Pilgrimage in Space — Caitlin Rose Staff
I wake up in the middle of the night but I am not floating; I am falling. Seven point thirteen billion people call this planet home. Ten people do not. They are a fractional percent, such a minority that they do not count. No one listens to what they have to say. They exist, nevertheless, … Continue reading
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