Once my mother told me she wasn’t my mother, not really. “Oh,” she said, “I gave birth to you, but –” and here she waved her hand...

After Natalie Diaz She was calling for me in the night-light-free bedroom the one she spends most of her time in. When they came to her...

She picked at the green plastic straw, then drew it halfway up out of her drink, focusing on the white coating of whipped cream that...

The time will pass anyways. You might as well enjoy it. You have to keep going. This is your choice, but wake up and choose it every...

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The engines. The buses. The bustle. A December Monday with students eager to be released. Above, snowflakes eager to erupt. Like candy in...

I take a sip of bright pink, speckled with seeds, it’s sweet taste prickling against my tongue, and I am reminded of our freckled noses....

she wonders if I would love her were she ugly; ravished in a fire/gored by wild hounds/broken in half to protect me, I find myself unable...

The internet says smelling citrus means someone you love is near. Maybe they’re in the kitchen stripping a lemon of its zest. They could...

On the second and final date, I help you fold your laundry. You ask me if I’ve ever worked retail, because I’m impressively good at this,...

every woman wants to own a bookstore café by the beach emergency exit the market saturation of a dream in which everything is everything...

My mother stands by the counter of her kitchen pointing to her belly. I am visiting her for three weeks and am prepared to clock in as...