Fiction

Death Howl

Trunks shoot fire. Crocodiles pierce through you. Snails bite and retreat to their shells. (If only you returned to your son’s arms.) Frogs barf copies of themselves. You start to realize you’ll never get him back.

Where the Skybox Tears

“I tried to uninstall consciousness,” Jim muttered, his eyes flat—rendered without specular mapping, glassy from frame-rate decay. “Didn’t take.” He sounded like someone who had run too many diagnostics on his own mind and found the root directory encrypted by something older than memory.

My Bathtub in the Shape of a Bull

All week, the residents anticipate Saturday night, when a dog will play guitar for us. There is no greater celebrity than this dog.

The Princess Wishes for Her Own Ending

She is hungry for blood and dirt, not the cold stone walls or the warm spring pools where she bathes, or even the sweet perfumes her maidservants comb into her inevitably long, inevitably blonde hair. She is told she is beautiful so many times she does not know who she is.

We Have Always Loved Kana

They smile and touch my hair, I am an entire potentiality of fingertips and cleverness and I lust with the hugeness of all my doings. Their eye glitters with more mischief than an entire sack of stolen jewels.