blueberries

i always liked blueberries the best zanny stohl “You’re an animal person,” she says. “I like that.” He is the old body of a young man, sitting against a sandbag barricade. The sack seams have long since been picked by birds, and ants have burrowed through the piles of sand that had pissed out. His […]

glass girl

Glass Girl ashley huyge I never wanted children of my own. I struggled so much to take care of myself that I couldn’t be responsible for another person. I used to wake up in the morning, shivering in anticipatory grief; an unholy breeze whistling through my ribs, filling my body with emptiness. I didn’t have […]

my disposal

My Disposal hannah madden My garbage disposal is speaking to me. It started small. A bubbling, a gurgling. Noises that could be explained by the dishwasher or suds of my leftover soap. Then the gurgling took on a pattern. She started playing my favorite songs. A new radio hit just for me, once a week, […]

garden revisited

the serpent finds eve in every lifetime; or, GARDEN REVISITED sasha ravitch             God help me I have never loved anything as much as her, I have never loved anyone this much and I cannot stop eating her, I cannot stop tasting her, God help me I have never loved anyone as much as her […]