Faces slick with amber heat
over a bundle of sticks
we were trying to light into
something else
“You’d be such a beautiful girl,” the dentist said the first time I went to see her. “If only you’d fix your teeth.”
but the pain is still there.
and among the sweet summer ocean
she falls right through
Pearlie’s voice hardened. "Maybe I just need someone to listen to me. Maybe I just need to see real sky again and feel real air on my face."
"I charge each of you to bring me a gift. It needs not be large, expensive, nor grandiose. It needs only be unique. Bring me something that is the only one of its kind. This challenge will require thought. It will require imagination."
Nuance is not a word that exists anymore. It is my job to remember it. I am a word hoarder, tasked with preserving the words the world has forgotten.
It was that encroaching distance between them that prompted Adam to propose this adventure, an opportunity for father-son time together. The years were slipping away too quickly, and there was so much he wanted to teach Noah; so many things he...
My name is Coco Bryte, and I’m human.
She didn’t need to know I had met this traveler. She had kept a secret from me; it seemed only fair that I keep this secret from her.
Jowls appeared like an apparition, an amalgamation of the Michelin Man and a ninja, pedaling toward us in a skin-tight karate gi.