My Body is a Cage and Other Stories
“I don’t know, honey,” her mother says, “I’ve never had an experience like that. Sleep paralysis demons don’t usually communicat ...
Must be an off-day for it too. She doesn’t try to use her voice this time, and tests out a theory she’s been hatching. Why don’t ...
It feels the same as if any human poked the side of her face, except its sharp nail left a shallow cut on her cheek. Okay. A dro ...
behavior. She should beg for him to reconsider, she should apologize, she should grovel. She will always need money. She wants t ...
LETTERS FROM A LOVER, 19 August 1969 Hotel St. Michael, 205 W Gurley St,Prescott, AZ 86301 Kate. The first words you ever spoke ...
but the caution tape was gone. You picked up a shard and dropped it into my bag. You later placed it on one of our bookshelves w ...
After being together for three months, we finally had sex. I hadn’t yet told you exactly what it was that made me recede into my ...
did for a living. I wanted to tell you she was a social worker or a high school mathematics teacher or even a waitress, somethin ...
just nodded, though I’d never had anything stronger than wine before. You actually laughed when I took the shot and my face scre ...
a motel in Oregon that had two cats in the lobby, one tabby and one black. The concierge said their names were Tallulah and Char ...
mom is getting out of prison and I have to go pick her up. You said, what the fuck? And the tone in which you said it made me de ...
neighbor after she caught him trying to burn a white cross on her lawn. And Betty, who is just a few years younger than my mom a ...
But she wouldn’t let me. She grabbed my hands and said, “You do know.” She told me to start talking, and it didn’t have to make ...
backward until he fell flat on his back in the dirt, right beside mama. He held onto his wound and his mouth was moving but no w ...
blazer. I was ready to perform all the nothing-talk that must happen on first dates, but you got straight to it. Asking how I go ...
checking the mailbox, and I assume you expected a call. But I’ve always been better at writing than speaking. I never meant for ...
Playing House I think I am fundamentally unlovable sometimes. Likethere is something so rotten inside that it repels any possibi ...
warm body to trust with this warm body I am in. And so I get out of the shower and, like most people my age, make a Tinder accou ...
NOT to drive over to your dorm at 2 AM plastered. I’ve learned to be wary of men with dog photos in their profiles. The dog is a ...
We exchange how are yous and he asks if we can walk. He appreciates the coffee and takes a sip immediately, to my satisfaction. ...
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