Fiction

It’s the bottom of the sixth inning and I’m sweating in my beach chair. My son’s team is losing, and I’m cursing the obnoxious opposing team with their excitable coaches…

It’s about to happen.  The delirious fan moans above Pramila. It is going to detach from its rusty holder on the ceiling. Whatever is going on in her viscous dream…

Mom married Hurricane Gerald because he was strong. Passionate. Because he was too big for the car, too big for the house, too big for an office job. Mom married…

It was five months into her pregnancy when her doctor presented her with an ultrasound image that revealed a complex story. A competition between her fetus and a rapidly growing…

Her four children press in close: two on one side, one on the other, one nestled in her lap. As expected, they ask for the next chapter of the fictional…

When the large poodle tried to lick her son’s hand, he cried, “It’s warm! Mama! Dog breath is warm! Not cold like yours!” Mama paused. Her son thought she was…

Summer ends abruptly. The tarns have finally warmed. Ari and I laze in the backyard beneath the protracted sunlight, relishing the bite in the air, the plump tomatoes tumbling off…

I first saw the tiny pair of lover beetles that lived in the microwave clock scuttling back home when I flicked on the light. Just the two of them, marooned…

There’s no perfect alternative.Let’s face it: eggs are amazing. One large egg contains roughly 13 essential vitamins, six grams of protein, and all the essential amino acids your body needs,…

I know I should take a test. I should have done it days ago. Every morning I tell myself, tomorrow, I promise. But the thing about tomorrow—it doesn’t arrive on…

Your daughters, the Little One and the Big One, are sitting at the kitchen table, their faces shades of bruise. At some point in the late afternoon, probably while you…