At noon, they ate fried river fish out of banana leaves with their fingers. The guide ate with them. Laura had forgotten his name but could not bear to ask it now. Craig called for salt, and Laura flushed with shame.Craig had asked her to marry him that morning, and she’d said yes.“The jungle is […]
Nicola’s teleportation sickness support group used to meet in the public library, but then the library sealed its entrance and went teleport-only. For tonight’s meeting, Nicola rented an Irish pub’s snug. The Ivy and Cross is one of the few places that still has a physical entrance. Teleporting while drunk can do a number on […]
My body is a body in which I mean it eats, sleeps, pisses, and shits, all thanks to the 200 jolt-a-roos the ruffian at the corner gives me once per week. I am ageless, I am boundless, but I can no longer stand outside to watch our frequent thunderstorms. This galvanized heart of mine requires […]
The boys are staying overnight at their dad’s apartment for the first time. A perfect opportunity, I’m sure, for my ex to introduce them to his twenty-five-year-old tart.Flopped on my bed upstairs and partway through the Carol Burnett Show, I think I’m hallucinating when I see Gene Simmons hovering outside my bedroom window and tapping […]
Ellen’s ex-girlfriend called her a personality vacuum before she considered doing it for work.It came out at a house party of Rhia’s debate-me crowd, Ellen backing some Rhia-espoused view, like she always did, and then— “God, El, get your own opinion for once. It’s like talking to a parrot. Do you have a personality in […]
‘If love had a texture, it would be satin.’It’s what I’d often told my brides, tucking and pinning them to perfection as they stood on a pedestal under the bright lights of my little shop. Draped in white and unsteady in shoes they hadn’t yet broken in; they confronted their reflections in my triple mirrors.‘Satin […]
I saw a shareable, online platitude that goes something like, “Someone feels like HOME when they let you be your authentic self.” Truth! Of course this is true! Don’t say FFO didn’t tell you about staying true to your authentic self. But… Also true… We can’t help ourselves! In the words of every hopeless romantic, […]