My doll watched
As we slipped off their dresses and dipped them one-by-one into their pool, Barbie stared, unchanged, and I thought of when I first unboxed her, newly four, half a shelf of dolls beside the built-in closet.
JAKE
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
I wanted once before to honk my horn against the swastika that he’d drawn on the poster board he got from the Dollar General, but I had the horn’s fuse pulled as a wild experiment in radical pacifism.
Beef Case
The future is a vast and scary place, the recording says. Dead ends, dead dreams, destitution. Only if you’ve been pushing yourself hard enough do you have a chance. You have ten minutes of break. Step it up.
The new clock
and my heart is a crocodile mimicking death. I seek God in a temple
Genesis
no rib bones please!
Malus
A Flash Fiction Trio
Space Potato
Everything I think, everything I am is foreign.