Category Archive: Prose

The difference is simple

There are poems that she never stops writing, filling page after page until her fingers numb and she has to tap them on the table to wake them. She has no shortage of… Read More

Sometimes

He makes soft mewing noises when he sleeps, tossing belly-up, like a puppy. I like him with his eyes closed, when I can shed my pretenses in skins, dirty on the floor, and… Read More

The Sweet Tooth

“It’s amazing that you still haven’t read Anna Karenina. And you call yourself an English major.” “It’s not that I haven’t tried. There’s something about the title that sets me off Karenina… Kar-nin-nin-a.… Read More

Reading a Smile

They say your eyes were closed the first time you smiled but they’re wide open now, shining, and I can’t tell if you’re delighted or just scared. Your teeth are clenched but you… Read More

Scavenger

His eyes were heavy-lidded, as though they were swollen, healing from a slight. I avoided them carefully and how they followed the lines of my body beneath my over-sized sweater. I bought it… Read More

Sitting Ducks

“There are things you don’t know about me.” He doesn’t look up from the joint he’s rolling, instead concentrates on his fingers, tongue flicking out to wet the end. I lean back on… Read More

Needs Water

Don’t ask him why, he won’t answer. He’ll just look through you a little to the left of your ear; making you want to turn around. It’s not because he doesn’t want to… Read More

Thoughts on Almost Getting Hit

They say life flashes before your eyes, but they didn’t say it might not be recognized. Might not even be mine. Cars are too smooth these days. Windows that won’t be confined to… Read More

Goose

They called her Goose because her hair looked like feathers and her skin was soft as down. Pretty as a picture but with this honking laugh that should have belonged to a steel… Read More

Holding You

There’s not much that I’m afraid of but those things that do cause me pause are the big things, the things that do more than go bump in the night. The fear of… Read More

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