The moment Loretta opens her front door, I can tell something is up. Her rosy complexion is gone. Her long white hair looks like it hasn’t been washed in a week.
She frowns at the plate of chocolate chip cookies …
New Fiction
Daylight
The bus smelled like exhaust and hot rubber. It hit Elijah as soon as he walked through the folding door. That afternoon, the air inside smelled like food, too. Doritos, pretzel rods, gritty Nature Valley bars that kids chased with …
Translation Definition
“translation
/tranz-LAY-shuhn/
noun
1.“the art of failure,” -John Ciardi
2. The vietnamese words thuong and yeu are often translated to “love.” But the reader would never know that where thuong is generous, yeu is selfish and unbending. Yeu owns the …
Jeneen
“At the rooftops of multiple homes, you can see the holes they dug out of the walls to make a place for the sniper. As you see here at my feet, hundreds of ammunition shells left behind. And of course, …
Cat-Sitting
Grace walks through a door and finds a man staring at a long-haired cat. She’s at a party where she knows almost no one—hardly knows the host—but she knows this cat. She once spent five …
