Oh, Mom

"How could she take pride in a life she was hardly allowed into?" — David McConnell

Everyone’s Vegan Brother

Ernesto is a painter—just my type, wiry and grim with a single eyebrow, cut arms, and cages for hands. — Sydney Bradley

A Story

"You hold your palm over the flame of a lighter. You water the plum tree. You make a paper boat, knit a pair of mittens, because winter is here."

Tokyo Nights

"None of the men I go with ever admit it, but they all like me because I shave my head." - Travis Jeppesen

The Waiting Room

Let us begin by delimiting the fat man: to the north, the tip of his bowler; to the south, the tips of his boots; to the east and west, the far edges of hat, ears, neck, shoulders, arms, hips, thighs, legs, feet.

August

This man was unbearable, but because he was the first person to be sufficiently violent with me during sex, I let it go on longer than I should. - Anika Jade Levy

Mrs. Diet Coke

"The whole he-had-his-whole-life-ahead-of-him sob story is such a cliché. The only difference between croaking young and dying old is your adjectives: pretty with potential or wrinkled with regret. At least Bryce looked hot in his casket."