She’s Not Mine
A pizza delivery boy gets caught in the middle of a domestic argument in the wake of his own breakup.
The Big Blue
Innocence and experience reach a precarious tipping point when a day of skipping school ends with two girls hitchhiking to New Mexico.
Mount Saint Helens Did Not Erupt on My Birthday
Three siblings gather to discuss committing their hypochondriac mother.
Cover Letter for The Cabin
This overwrought cover letter to a prospective publisher details one novelist's childhood, writing process and condiment obsession.
Subject
A film crew hired to document a wealthy child's life gets shaken up when the boy joins their crew on his sixteenth birthday.
Border Kali
This time, as we huffed in oppositional rhythms, her form dilated into another, crueler figure, now laboring to metamorphose. Something bigger than a border collie with a tongue hanging out, something beyond this moment, ancient and unfinished.
Interradar
A tall, thin black woman in her thirties approached the walkway in front of their table. Janita quickly glanced at Blake, and then again. “There’s number one,” Blake said. “One for one.”
One Hundred
I keep a list of the men I sleep with since the last time I slept with you. What he does to me. What I do to him. What we do together. Some men end up on several lists. You have your own list.
The Schedule
Henry looked back down to his schedule. It looked more detailed and busy than it had five minutes before; like Hieronymus Bosch logged it, like hyperactive spiders had danced in ink all over the page.
The Last Villagers
What a surprise this is for her. To see him sleeping in their bed, a solid shape. No longer just a ghost, stealing away then stealing home while the family slept.
Dancing Alone
He owned a sweater that she desperately hated. A girl he dated in college bought it for him while learning abroad in Copenhagen. Every time she saw him in it she was reminded of all the past arms that had embraced him. She tried to destroy it...
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