Jim tells everyone that the worm probably has like fifty-thousand hearts. He says it in that way, like fifty-thousand hearts.
Read More“It’s not her,” he told me, “it’s my sperm. They’re all... weird.”
Read MoreBallet slippers like Jody Hindman's are not gonna happen now.
Read MoreAt first, most people don't recognize they're cursed. At first, most people see the curse as a blessing from the gods. King Midas did. I did. That said, the wasps started stalking my buddy Jerry, and now I'm in hiding.
Read MoreIt’s a bad day to be a fish on a ledge under Lake Sewell or an empty gas tank or a friend without a plan.
Read MoreWe weave through the highway's hypnotic dark, an hour or so south of the White Mountains.
I need to check the directions, I say. Do it, says the character, the end of a pistol raised to my face. My phone drinks power from the console. The screen's pearl light washes us as I open the map app.
There's still a while to go, I say.
Read MoreWhen I saw two more couples squeezing in, I was just like, huh? That’s a lot of people cramming into one hot tub. I mean, it’s a pretty big hot tub, as far as hot tubs go, but that’s still way too many people.
Read MoreMy mother’s ghost hovers beside me. She doesn’t say a thing, she never does, but I can feel her judgment weighing me down. She's lurked in this house ever since her body was burned. It's been two years.
Read MoreThat year you grew so bored we started swimming in the frozen over lake. Don’t get me wrong. I know about activities on lakes.
Read MoreTo whatever Arini scum it may concern, my name is Tedai, and I write to you because I am terribly, terminally bored. I am stationed on a godsforsaken asteroid, floating by my lonesome in a sector of space you’ll forgive me for not disclosing, relations between our polities being what they are.
Read MoreIt began with a glance in the morning while she licked jam from toast, between checking her ovulation tracker app and deleting the junk email on her phone: she pulled up the local animal shelter websites and clicked through the pictures of dogs.
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