Caesura
“When I tell people I’m a prosthetist, they fairly assume I make arms and legs, but no – I am a face man, which, owing to the peculiarities of human anatomy and activity, means an ear man, principally.”
Coming soon to Lightspeed Magazine
For All You Other Daughters
“Western texts date the discovery of vagina dentata to 1800 BCE, to the Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, the oldest medical text in the world.“
Read it now at Nightmare Magazine
Woman with Brain Tumor Seeks Love of Bighorn Sheep
“I keep reminding myself how the tumor is pressing on the place that Descartes claims joins the body with the soul and so any manifestation of sickness is possible.”
Buy the issue at Grist: A Journal of Literary Arts
Koala Man
“Mr. _, I’m writing you this letter hoping you understand why I did what I did, and that I didn’t mean anything hurtful to you, and not just because the judge says I have to.”
Read it now at Hunger Mountain Review
The Graveyard, The Garden
“They forgot to take a clock with them, and when they came up from under the earth all the clocks had stopped.”
Buy the issue at Salamander Magazine
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Cages
“It isn’t sneaking out because she doesn’t do it every day, only the days when her husband sleeps downstairs, when the sound of the shower will wake him.”
Coming soon to The Massachusetts Review