for my next trick i will disappear
This story has no centre. Imagine the tall grass in a meadow. the path visible between the blades where a body has passed through. Imagine the house in...
ghost mom
in which my daughter and i go on a dementia adventure with my mother; a dementure.
frogs
i don’t remember so i imagine how when every spring they would at last, tails absorbed into their wriggling bodies become frogs. how my face must have looked...
april
I’m going to tell this one in a spiral, okay?
vila
PROLOGUE: I am going to break with my recent string of writing and tell you a story of something that happened once; it’s a story my mother gave me years ago...
devojka
The best time to pick the pockets of the dead and dying is on a battlefield, it’s axiomatic, but that’s not why she came with her silver salver of water —...
paulette
i was a teenage waitress
καλλίστῃ
It started as a blister on my neck, just where it met the shoulder; I didn’t give it much attention beyond a worried look in the mirror in the morning before...
trojeručica
i treći dlan mi pruži/da u gnezdu stihova prenoćim - vasko popa
epic.
After the raven landed on the stone windowsill and dropped the hand in her lap, after she recognized it by the ring on the third finger, after she screamed...
igor
i made up whatever i couldn't remember, but isn't that what i always do, anyway?
tick tock
Right before we stopped speaking to each other he used to say in a doomy voice that time was elastic, really drawing it out like tiiiiiiiiiiiime is...
i was a teenage dropout
for a year, it wasn’t long, I think I knew I’d go back eventually. To keep my brain from rotting I tried to teach myself Latin; I can still translate basic...
milk
the more you do it, the more toxic it gets.
OS
i can’t help it, people say sometimes which actually means they don’t want to, but believe me when i say i can’t help it, every morning when my eyelids open...
savasana
i do it mainly for the way it ends, when we are all lying on the floor again exhausted in a corpse pose (this is what it’s actually called, corpse pose), and...
shhh
but tell me, what’s better than a secret? not the kind that makes you feel like you’ve been eating small stones, bellyful of their weight sloshing around...
cortège
named for his father, i held his hand as we walked up the winding road to the churchyard. i held his hand as we walked behind the hearse with its great glass...
eidolon
i took an exit by mistake in all that rain, i could hardly see three feet ahead of me and the road was a river, there were no taillights ahead of me as a...
body II
‘i give my body every good thing that pleases it, and dive headlong into pleasure as into the sea’