The collective sigh of relief is an insult, as if the least favorite relative is dead at last and, finally, the china goes where it...

Rust is iron oxide forming on iron-based metal exposed to the elements when its protective coating wears off. A sign of aging and...

I invited my mother to dinner With some of my closest friends. She passed the bread To my friend from the summer After high school. The...

For some time now, I have been thinking about, and sometimes writing about cover songs. By “writing about cover songs,” I usually mean...

Twenty TVs echo cacophonously, each tuned to the same station, half lagging two seconds behind. Smells of medicine and piss coat the...

I wear special clothes when I visit my dad. I have a routine. When I get home from school, I head to the far closet at the end of the...

The announcement came mid-march in a one-room apartment in Ohio a hellfire warning from a golden trombone with an elongated saqueboute–...

Time is dead in the shop. It sags beneath its jaunty green paint job, applied by well-meaning relatives, the placard announcing its...

I could have imagined her hand in mine, a storm brewing in the molecules between our fingertips. Her nails, long and manicured, placed on...

Under hospital lights that flicker a morse “SOS,” I drop my hummingbird feather ring, still beating, into a plastic bag labeled PSYC. I...

She didn’t tell me when it could’ve mattered. She didn’t tell me when it would’ve made a difference. She didn’t say it, and I didn’t say...

These parrots will be my inheritance: these clipped-wing, leash-trained useless things all that’s left at the end. All the money spent....