Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and music, in that order
Achtung:
The version of my short story that appears in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 is not the version I submitted to them, nor is it the version that was selected for the prize after it appeared in The Threepenny Review. It’s a draft I wrote four years ago. How did they get a hold [...]
0. Noxious Stimuli
With all of her fingernails Diana scratches a spot on her lap over and over without any awareness of what she is doing.
“A five-second pinch. Five seconds. A pinch. And they want to destroy me.”
Of all places, this clean, windowless hospital office. Diana at twenty-three has never cried in front of anyone, and [...]
My story “Scenes from the Life of the Only Girl in Water Shield, Alaska” will be appearing in the 2008 O. Henry Prize Stories on May 6th. I swear that if you buy it, you will grow or shrink four inches, wherever on your body you want.
When Samantha de Rosetis started falling again and again, and again and again and again, everyone had theories.
Two mismatched men stamp their boots through the hard snow.
They appeared overnight at the end of the summer and I awoke to the hum and the steely banging of their bodies against the screen of my bedroom window, hovering in drunken loops around a smooth tennis ball-sized nest the color of peanuts.
like the inseparable coming to and escaping
cities at night…