FLASH FICTION

SHE SUCKS ON THE BONES

"She only uses Burt’s Bees lip balm in public. In private, she uses the strawberry Chapstick they sell at gas stations next to the 99 cent porn lighters."

A BOULDER IN NEW YORK

"There will always be a place in the world where we are laying on our backs, atop a boulder in Central Park, your leg across mine, us wondering if this is what it looks like to be deep."

THE BOY WHO THE WORLD FORGOT TO JADE

"To this day, I still think of your chest. Of that stupid fedora you refused to take off. Of the pair of Levis that made your ass look almost sacred. I think of the fact that any of this still makes me wet, and how much I hate myself for it."

I WANT YOU

"I have eclipsed the age at which my mother became pregnant with me – eclipsed even more so the age at which she lost her virginity. I am twenty-eight, and yet still look like a thirteen-year-old girl entering puberty."

DEAR STRANGER

"You are five-years-old, sitting with your brothers and sister at the dining room table. You are eating eggs. You are not smiling. No one is. You won’t yet understand that not all families are like this."

BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS

"We are beautiful monsters – no soul, but a body that you’d kill for. And you do. You overflow your bodies with so much water

that you become a living, dying irony."

I STILL HAVE YOUR TEQUILA

"We're not going to talk tonight. We're going to drink tequila and fuck. We'll talk tomorrow."

A COUNTRY WITH YOUR NAME

"Somewhere inside me there is an entire country named after you. Doors to rooms I built into the sides of mountains. My ribs – that tender mountain range of muscle and bone that still holds the memory of us."