The water was seeping into the carpet and the tissue was disintegrating in her wet hands, her mum would be home soon. The carnage of the broken ceramic vase, the daffodils were deflated and soaked. The key turned in the…...
He stays alone in the darkness. It likes him; he likes it. He can’t recognize how this obsession with emptiness created a vacuum in mind and heart. He calls it infinity and believes it is vast, but the void has…...
Clara watched from her third-floor window. The tiny apartment she shared with her sister had been their dream castle. She’d seen Trey approach the building and stare. The moment he absorbed what her life was like humbled him. He laid…...
On a quest to find a comparable paper towel to Bounty, I settled for the Sam’s store brand. Same thing as Wal-mart. The pack of 24 rolls was drastically cheaper than the name brand-$20 instead…...
One rainbow-wrapped Maserati Ghibli – front crumpled to firewall. Seven empty bottles of Rolling Rock – in Maserati’s front footwell. One yellow Fiat 500L with white roof – impacted at A pillar. One Philips Avent baby bottle – in Fiat’s…...
“That’s a lot to absorb.” Jane licked her ice cream cone and considered what Andi had just said. “Well,” Andi said. “He told me I was the one, mom.” She shrugged and sipped her milkshake. “What was I supposed to…...
The words hung between us, daring us to speak. I hid my face in my hands as tears flowed down. “Pregnant?” Dad’s voice cut into the silence. “Whose is it? I’ll kill him.” “Daddy, please…” “Who’ll take care of…...
The relentless onshore wind pushed the surging tide farther inland than before. Rain poured out of the sky. The ground could not absorb another drop. Millie’s father lashed her to a beam in the attic and went back downstairs to…...
