Aug 16, 2019
We Can’t Be Good at Everything
He is forced into farcical attempts to catch her attention. Every other moment of his life has been arranged to this purpose, so why should his son’s birthday be any different?
Where’s Jenny B. Gone?
She had a smile like yours. None of us knew her real name. Then again, none of us were asking.
Aug 09, 2019
Saudade
We’d pull the curtains from their rods above the large living room window when we made love. This was when we were our own gods.
Aug 02, 2019
The Color of the Year 2022
It’s blithe, seductive, yet innocent. The color of soulfulness, it has been chosen for its ability to give people hope.
Jul 26, 2019
The Dancer Ascends the Stage
Our dance was inspired by a custom where women lay swords at their throats, and men step on them just hard enough to prove the women’s courage.
Jul 19, 2019
The Day Nothing Remarkable Happened
If he had remembered to meet her, it could have changed everything. What is uncertain is whether he would have been spared.
Jul 12, 2019
Before the Crossing
The boy loved seeing the tent from outside, lit up by firelight, glowing brightest where it was wearing thin.
Jun 28, 2019
How to Be a Family
A married couple and their twin sons weather the heartbreaks and savor the joys of family life over decades in this novella.
Jun 14, 2019
The Kings of Norway
They all were going around trying to prove themselves, litigating the case for their own worth: Look at me, look at me, look at me—I matter, don’t I?
Jun 07, 2019
Harmless Are the Harvestmen We Don’t Let In
Who is there? I called when a spell of quiet passed, though I already had my guess, an automated sighting notice having gone out last week.
May 31, 2019
Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me
You’re safe now, said the plates, the walls, the glasses, even the golden chandelier that I hadn’t noticed before.
May 24, 2019
You and Me, Bird
Your near-life experiences have coalesced in this momentary identity. You are a woman speeding along I-10 with a caged green-cheeked conure chirping by her side.
May 17, 2019
Boys into Men, and Men into Monsters, While I Am Home With the Girls
When you disappeared, three nights ago, I told them you were up north, visiting your mother. Why should I tell them different?
May 10, 2019
A Packing List for the End of the World
I decide to put the plant in the ground the next time we stop, to insist that something I’ve loved will survive me.
May 03, 2019
Tumblr vs. Democracy
They tell me that my new job is to chisel a deep and lasting crack into the foundation of American democracy.
Apr 26, 2019
The Encroachment of Waking Life
The man in the fur hat warned me things might be different after we crossed the time barrier—that my presence might confound, even frighten those who’d forgotten me.
Apr 19, 2019
“As soon as you agree to soup.”: Excerpts from Erin McGraw’s ‘Joy’
“We need more soft bedding; everything now is hopelessly stained. We need better antiemetics. We need a miracle, and somebody to say so. It’s not going to be him.”
Apr 12, 2019
Con Suerte He Will Sleep Another Hour
Her mother had never curved a cool hand around Marilinda’s cheek and promised, Mijita, your life will be swollen with love.
Apr 12, 2019
The Cost of Dehaunting
“I don’t believe in ghosts, but you have a reputation for helping troubled properties.”
Apr 05, 2019
Tell Me What You Think of Me
I knew how these small moments could accumulate over time, threading back to one another, changing how you behaved in the world.
Mar 29, 2019
