More Light than Heat
“Don’t you think she’s adorable?” Conversation floods around you in full, un-subtitled glory. Your father, normally stiff-limbed and red-faced, holds court over a pot…
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so i let him save her
i swear i felt like a man on those days. when they would stand huddled up in twos or threes and when they would…
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A shuffle then the lapse of quiet
Inches away from me, Olly was making some kind of muttering noise in his sleep – the kind that was garbled, mostly indecipherable. Amidst…
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Float
I’m blue-cold when you reach me, skin pickled with floodwater, lips gently parted. Lids closed but eyes flickering. I can see your shifting shadow…
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Twelve Signs That Something Like This Might Happen
1. A year nine marine biology class is dissecting Northern Pacific Sea Stars, cloudy fish tanks windowing the classroom, that sour pickly smell. One…
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I Don’t Want to Ask What’s in the Cream Cheese
in the vegan sushi because when we walked in the hostess in the tiger’s eye shirt—sheer, cut to her navel—had to scan us up-down…
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Satelle’s Machine
On Earth, Satelle is working in a music store while she gets her degree in computer science and engineering. At the end of long…
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Merman
When I first saw him slide into a laid-back Jamaican wave, with no crash, slick as a sharptail eel, Merman was the name I…
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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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