My Body is a Cage and Other Stories
Ezra sits with her until she cries herself out. Something about him makes it not embarrassing. Maybe it’s his prescription glass ...
“You,” she replies, setting the binoculars aside. They resolve to get up at 8 A.M. before the sun really begins to bake everythi ...
He fiddles with the lens of his camera. “Maybe not the little green dudes, but we’ve provenbacteria live on other planets.” “Do ...
“Oh, yeah. My dad loved that show.” “Guess what my middle name is.” “Uh...” “Guess.” “Elizabeth?” “No.” “Mary?” “No.” “What is i ...
“Can’t you feel it?” She is shivering even though it isn’t cold, and when he offers her his hoodie, she takes it. It feels like ...
“Wait, what is that?” “What?” He points to the camera’s screen, to a smear of lightin the sky way above his head. At that exact ...
“Give me back my mother,” she says. And she repeats this over and over and over. “Astrid!” He grabs her arm to stop her, but she ...
STONEHENGE It’s her idea to have sex inside of Stonehenge. We had come back from dinner with her parents, bothof them suitably i ...
non-American people watching Dance Moms. Then she says, “Do you want to go have sex in Stonehenge?” I laugh a little. “Sure.” Sh ...
“We have to save it for tomorrow.” I huff, lay my head on her shoulder. She hasn’t touchedme since we arrived. “You’ve been plan ...
using laughter like it’s punctuation, but right now she’s serious. Contemplative. I watch her lips curve to form words. She says ...
She parks on the side of the road about a mile and a half away from it. There is the smallest, faintest trail through the trees ...
“I know.” I hesitate outside the circle. “What if the security guard comes back?” “He won’t. Their rounds are hourly.” “How do y ...
copy of IT for a reason. We got married for a reason. Do you think we live together just for fun? Because I need a roommate?” “N ...
I nod. She presses her lips to the top of my head. Over her shoulder, there is a flicker. I grab her and we tumble off the rock ...
“It was terrifying! Andembarrassing. That man saw us naked!” “I’m sorry, love.” She runs her thumb over my knuckles.Some of the ...
fingers to her lips and feed her myself. And perhaps this is what marriage is, between two very different women. Coffee and scon ...
THE SPIDERMAN COMES Eileen can’t wait to die. She thinks about it at herretail job, picking up shirts customers have left on the ...
coming closer to her face and the buzzing intensifies and she can see now it has a mouth but no eyes and the mouth splits wide o ...
“I’ll do it this week,” Eileen lies. “I haven’t missed a dose in months so I don’t think they have anything to do with it.” Work ...
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