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I sit in the center of the soft bed strewn with rose petals, strings of jasmine forming a cloying canopy from the bedposts to the ceiling. The room, decorated for… Read more »

This micro won first place in the National Flash Fiction Day Micro Contest 2023: gone before the toothpaste flattened out, leaving behind ellipses of passion on my thighs, tumbler stains… Read more »

Published in print by Cream City Review. Dear Diary,                                                                                                     It’s going to be a mango-less summer. This spring the sun was so strong it killed the tender mango flowers before… Read more »

“Oh, look!” Roger slammed the brakes and steered into the shoulder, the tires cutting into the rubble across the yellow line. Kelly’s phone jumped out of her hand as the… Read more »

This story won second place in Pithead Chapel’s Larry Brown Short Story Prize. Through the pores of the mosquito net, I see Abba holding my aunt Salma Khala’s hand. She’s… Read more »

A place we fell in love with and made our home, a place where crabs crawled up to the porch as we sat in bamboo chairs, sipping our morning chai,… Read more »

Respond to job postings within cycling distance of the beat-up apartment you share with three college mates. Get interviewed and hired to sit evenings at a stone-front house with a… Read more »