Almost California

The summer my brother Drill turned 17, his favorite saying was, “Yeah, that’s almost California.” I’m not sure I knew what he…

Iced Coffee

Well stuff you, Kerri said under her breath as she strode back to the coffee machine.

Every fairy is born with three curses…

Only the youngest fairies can fly. As they age, they grow too big for their wings and become…

The girl who covers her hair

Craig knows he should be mainlining the glory of the Parthenon, and the majesty of its columns. But he can’t…

2015 — A Love Story

Spring

It’s 2015 and I’ve got work to do.

Mia’s Bakery / 20151101

The end of days was coming in about 2–3 hours. They all got word that missiles from a variety of countries had all been fired…

Hunting Humans, Do’s and Don’ts

we don’t have a lot of time,

The Impossible Union of Artists.

And in the end, there was nothing to be fixed. She saw him through his periods of ungroomed Ted Kaczynski silent isolations, and was there with a cup of tea and an inquiring eyebrow when he came up for air. He took her, too — when at two a.m. the lights in their tiny…