A woman who claimed to be a chimera called the library most Tuesdays, on the old line they never got around to disconnecting after the renovations. The call went straight to a yellowed phone hung on ... [+]
Short Fiction
If these walls could talk
endless rhythms and lyrics
of what I bared my children
what would
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The first day of his life on earth began,
when a spark of magic from his soul ran
out from
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While the Mighty One waits with arms spread like wings,
the weight of the world bends the bones
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There is a story and it goes like this. There is a tower of brick and stone, raised up like a mountain. Its peak puts holes in the bottoms of clouds. A princess sits by the window at the top, and ... [+]
On November 8th, 2016, we dragged our cement blocked feet and casted a ballot which handed history ... [+]
I love it when women speak to me
kindly in languages I do not know. A silent dragonfly
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“You know,” my best friend, Maggie, leaned forward in that same enticing way a child does while passing along a secret.
She was always starting her thoughts off like that. You know? They
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I went to Philadelphia to see the house that I grew up in.
It's being demolished to make room
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Every day I wake up weirder than the last.
I am a fish with scales instead of years.
I am a
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"Hi. My name is Max," I state flatly. "Hi Max," responds a cheerful chorus of voices seated in the crooked oval formed by our metal fold up seats. Every Narcotics Anonymous (or NA) meeting starts ... [+]
Our new house really felt like a home, with cockroaches and two pit bulls and a palm tree and a chain-link fence. On that first day, I heated up a can of kidney beans for breakfast and ate it ... [+]
They made my street one-way today
It's messing with my mood.
The phone can't find its way back
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It starts with a missed beat;
A percussive cue lost in the cacophony of city-
scape parades
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