Fiction

Waiting for help to arrive on that hairpin curve, I knew Halley was gone, that the envelope of time that was my wife had already been sealed. I did not…

You get used to watching them hurt your daughter. You don’t consider yourself macho. You took poetry classes in college and got to hear all about your female friends’ breakups;…

My first impression of the men’s shelter was War of the Smells. Gag-strong disinfectant versus a mildew, sweat, and excrement triple threat. With stinging nostrils and grim forebodings, the other…

Rae considers getting out and looking around while she waits for Nadine, her Realtor and Paul, her husband. She had thought she might check the perimeter, but her sluggish body…

Two hours after Rachel delivers her third baby — another boy — she doesn’t lie when people attempt to gauge her disappointment.

Facebook Status Update: Allison Trainor is wondering what she’ll do with all this free time. Both kids are napping! Internal Status Update: Allison Trainor is going to have an internet…

Last time, Vi picked out a husband on the train ride. She got him out of an ancient copy of Time, an article about the one hundred biggest foreign policy…

I’m only a few minutes late, but when I pull into the driveway Mama is already out on the steps, standing under the aluminum awning. She comes stumping down the…

Teeny became a mother every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon when she left the bank at 2:00. Rather than locking the side door behind her, as she did at closing every…

Yesterday was the perfect day to tell him. The air was choked with ash, hazy with heat lines; her tender nasal membranes were swollen and oozing in discomfort. She had…

At certain angles you think you already look pregnant, but mostly you look disgusted. You’re tired, swollen like a tick, and barely six weeks along. A complicated tangle of cells…