FICTION
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
She turns her back for me to fasten the rows of metal hooks. Why isn’t our small, tender freedom enough?
When I was on earth I was a pretty good kid. I only got drunk when I needed to get drunk.
He used to hold my hand on Commonwealth. I wonder sometimes if he ever still thinks about my mouth.
I know you shouldn’t keep wild animals as pets, but I’ve had the same spider in my bathroom sink for over two weeks.
A man with a fistful of showbags said, “That cow sounds like a person trying to sound like a cow.”
When Laika the space dog comes back, bulleted to earth in a tiny white escape pod that dissolves upon opening, nobody can believe it.
I loved Rena as much as a patient could love their gynecologist. We had tea together in her office. I cried when she asked how I was doing, and she showed me pictures of her terriers.
It was spring and the hills were irradient, like they had to get out all their green in one short burst before catching fire.
And then he feels that familiar sensation of drifting—when his body untethers from the material world and he soon dissolves into a fine, floating mist that evaporates into the atmosphere.
Darkness always follows.
I’m dancing with my best friend’s husband, under the influence of his jaws and thighs.
The most entertaining thing about Miguel is that when he was 13 he dislocated his shoulder playing basketball and can now pop it in and out of place. There is nothing particularly interesting about Miguel.
To be encased, Clint had always thought, was foolishness. Why allow yourself to be open to such sorrow?
At the end of the meeting, the villagers agreed to contribute shillings and pounds to sponsor Elochi to a university in America.
The day does not conclude with the gentle exhale of the earth, but with Mother Superior flipping the hourglass over, again.
Ever since your son brought you here, things have been different. He was crying when he dropped you off. You still don’t know why.
Share some abandon.
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