Horizontally awake
We bought nice mugs from the lady down the road who opened the new store who thought we were a nice couple. We befriended…
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Call Me Pink Parfait, Like the Paint Swatch
Tonight I am sitting alone in my favourite restaurant and asking every passing stranger to take a photo of me. I want to know…
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Body of Water
A body, of water, she said to me. She had been trying to think of the human body as an agglomeration of innumerable cells,…
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Bleeding Hearts
It was a quiet Tuesday afternoon and Vivian had just finished sweeping the floor when the wind-chime jingled merrily, indicating a customer had entered….
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Further than Bali
‘So have you done South-East Asia?’ she asks. When people ask me this I imagine South-East Asia as a girl without a face. No…
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Research
While the three of us were exploring the river bed, Jonathan L. examined his semen under the microscope. He told me this several weeks…
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A Right to Laugh
Grinning broadly Governor Miles ‘The Smile’ Fleck sank back into the soft leather desk chair and sighed. Today had gone well, he reflected. Better…
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Hunger
The red of her dress sticks out from the grey like smallpox. It wraps her in tight swathes, and he can see the bones…
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HOW TO CRY
CW: Discussion of anxiety SHAMEFULLY The heel of her hand pressed hard against her cheekbone, wiping upward, switching to dabbing at the…
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