FICTION
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
None speak of how the streets collide in coarse seams like scars, the fresh cobbles unable to level with the ones shaken from their mortar by uncountable seasons.
and on and on and on and on they ran, the Merry Men, running from a hundred and one arrows bought with taxes stolen twice over…
At the end of the meeting, the villagers agreed to contribute shillings and pounds to sponsor Elochi to a university in America.
I’d never heard of anyone having a second baby right after the first one, but everything was so strange in those early days of motherhood that I just acted on instinct.
When Laika the space dog comes back, bulleted to earth in a tiny white escape pod that dissolves upon opening, nobody can believe it.
To be encased, Clint had always thought, was foolishness. Why allow yourself to be open to such sorrow?
When I was on earth I was a pretty good kid. I only got drunk when I needed to get drunk.
Mama sped along the highway, unbothered by bits of gravel that flew up from the front tires and struck the windshield of the sedan.
“The woman was a catastrophe,” Carlos told me at the time. “But she was as honest as my face is ugly.”
On the first day of our new life together, my husband realized that I was not interested in theoretical debate. He said it was okay by him and went out to get some pancake mix.
A tortured simper uncoils itself across my mouth as I open another bottle of Penis wine.
I don’t know why I was still talking about the rapture. I certainly didn’t believe in it. Regardless, it remained a thief…
A man with a fistful of showbags said, “That cow sounds like a person trying to sound like a cow.”
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.
Another image rises to us both: A man hunched before a TV, watching historical documentaries, correcting incorrect facts. Rasputin was not a priest, damn it.
Before the headaches began, I thought myself sturdy: firm in my foundations, set square like a saltbox house.
Share some abandon.
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