The Snag

1. Nestled in the hollow of the dead tree is a bad man who watches and waits. One can only see his eyes, blue and bloodshot and hardly blinking, amidst the tree's insides. The fear I hold doesn't concern myself, but my children. They don'

Wet Season In A Dry Town

We all dug through the baker’s basement, and then dug some more. The handyman drove his backhoe in by smashing through the cement foundation and devised a pulley system to get the used appliances, mattresses, life-detritus, and ever-growing mounds of dirt and cement and rocks out of the basement.

See & Say

The cow says moo. The bird says tweet. The pig says oink. The kitten with one mangled paw says meow. The sheep says baaa. Before you shoot it, the rabies-infested dog says woof. The turkey says gobble gobble. The frog—when squished and sacrificed—says splat-sizzle. The horse says neigh.

The Wakeful Death

Her darkness blooms red from her finger’s muzzle. Led only by the intimations that no coincidences exist in this interpenetrating universe and the flips of a battered quarter she found on the street the previous day, S. has traveled fifty blocks to this penthouse lousy with romanesque porticos and

Sunflower

Credits, especially the opening ones, are never not boring; Tommy picks up the remote and fast-forwards, so the scripted title of “Sunflower” is a near-missed flash. Despite Sam and Joey’s insistence that he not skip more, he does; there’s very little action, just mostly story that they can’