Fiction – Page 23

Strange Weather: Dispatch #X24, by J. A. Tyler

[one_third] [/one_third] [one_third] I told them a story. I went to tell them everything, then I wasn’t sure, I hesitated,…

1987 In Retrospect—A Door to Itself—A Dream That Had Adhered— Nothing Marks the Places Exactly In retrospect I think…

Long piggish snouts and goggles appear in and out of focus as she readjusts the lens, the image remaining…

I Just Can’t, with This Heat All the small things: I can’t make rent. Landlord’s going to evict my…

—Look, I’m not saying you didn’t catch the fish. You caught the fish. —Got that right. Me, my claws,…

Explosions…Explosions Fathi is on the couch, watching the news with his wife and three children. A live broadcast of…

The Brain—is wider than the Sky, wrote Emily Dickinson. It is a beautiful line. But problematic. First, some brains…

Our mother had a tattoo. Burned on the inside of her womb, where I’d seen it, my eyes wide…

My mother and I walk through a grove of Canadian Hemlock after the rain. I’m three and collecting…

For three straight days it rained and did not stop. The first two days, the birds in the rain…