Sexy Tales of Paleontology
“Gosh, uh, hi – hello.” The microphone thumped and squealed, which was far more adept at gathering the room’s scattered concentration than the tiny…
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Tangerine
Anthi was dreaming the color orange. It painted the backs of her eyelids like a sunset, corner to corner. The tangerine on her bedside…
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DANCERS
It was winter when I went to the strip club, a few months after graduation. After ten minutes – are you here for a…
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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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