Issue 98

I am in the tree, my foot stuck between branches. So I pick at the skin of a limb. I see the tops of everyone’s dark, brown hair, shiny with the last bit of the day. No one can see me until I drop flakes of bark in their hair. Liz jumps up to shake […]

You were in the shower when I started setting off the smoke alarms, screaming fire. Fire. FIRE! Running to the door, I started pounding and kicking and hollering, feverishly hurling your name against the wood. You flew out of that bathroom like you had wings, sopping wet and shaking as the towel fell and crumpled […]

After Cecilia Llompart Beneath the billow a breeze spawns in the field. Among the mosquito’s preamble. Attendant to tree chatter, the snapped branch catching other branches on its fall. Threading the tire swing and the patched jacket knotted at the top. Outside and inside, like a fly discovers the open window, riffs off radio gossip: […]

The slippery slope is littered with grease monkeys. Hot hands reach for the moon. Small black objects appear and disappear with such rapidity that they create a gray blur. Thin little nobodies, disguised as lambs, emerge from the dead zone carrying banners that read, “We’ve been fleeced.” Soon there are battalions of mailmen with sacks […]