Out there on the hill she rides that old horse back and forth through the afternoon. I see her from the window. I think she's trying to kill it. The old man walks behind me again and I can feel his

"Unlikely to Condemn" and "Different Circumstances"

My homework, which I assigned to myself, the way kids do sometimes, consisted of hobbling around my room in a witch hat, practicing spells on my shoes. 

Her husband had grown the jalapeños in the backyard along with shy heirloom tomatoes and a few anemic cucumbers. He’d tried lettuce and even Sugar Baby watermelons but, at the first sign of ripeness,

I ate the steak violently because that was how I loved, and a love this intense must always be met with more.

Leah Dieterich:’s Vanishing Twins A Marriage came onto my radar when I saw it described as a Barthes-like book of fragments about an open marriage. As I read it, I discovered that it’s a book about

I thought Roger Waters was full of shit, I mean

 1. Pull the Release

Before opening the trunk, consider the world outside of it. Think of the miles of hot asphalt rolling underneath you. Think of the many men in the many other cars who might

If I had to take a shit that meant I had to go downstairs. I didn’t have a specific aversion to leaving the attic— I just never felt like getting out of bed. Also, the second floor toilet got clogged

I'm Sorry but Your Childhood Pet Can't Recognize You on FaceTime

people say I move like my mother     they say my sisters
& I have the same eyes          only way to tell we are sisters
they

Tori hugged the tree and went home and immediately started petting her dog

Do 4.1% and 103,000 Mean Anything to You? Are you 18-45? You could join our hepatitis vaccine study. *Donations will be accepted at the door* courtesy of Artificial Eye.

See what’s new: Bat brain

The slow stacking of weight or the flinging down of a toe while the torso is already ahead. There are always new body parts to hit on sides of doors. I like to put my legs into pants in front of an open window, then stick my head out to see who’s around.

The gas station sat on the corner like a tasteless cheeseburger.

Dr. Sandoval asked if I was planning on having children.

O Build-A-Bonfire, O
Blue Subaru

The word that comes to mind is delirium. 

The story is usually backstabbing of some kind.

The old woman takes another bite.

My sister has been reading a lot about her pores lately. At the moderately priced tourist town spa where we've met for the weekend, a commercial for the dual action microdermabrasion brush comes on the television above the hot wax station, and she swears their blackhead diagram is incomplete.

In my favorite bookstore in a city where I no longer live, there’s a sign for sale that says: when in doubt, turn left. I don’t remember the name of the gym where I spent my adolescence, but I could

Then it came time to open said package of Twizzlers

In the spring of 1989 an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building crossed Earth’s orbit.

funny how the stars line up.

It was supposed to be
a joyous thing

She tore off pieces and kept them in her mouth.

It happened at a small party I’d planned at a nightclub in the meatpacking district.

He was taking swigs out of a bottle of Listerine.

1.  My ex-boyfriend got engaged to a girl less than a year after he broke up with me.  We had dinner with her once.  She was a family friend.  She wore hoop earrings and looked like a worst-case scenario Mila Kunis.  I hated her but I didn't know why yet.