Est. 2008

Est. 2008

Fiction

513:47:22:12

“End of the world.” How long I had been staring at the pulsing blue light on the DVD player, I don’t know. End of the...

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

When I played Nirvana records, I saw Jesus handing him his voice on a purple velvet pillow. Then...

What It Is and What It Is Called

“Are you attracted to your sister?” The Professor looks at me, her hands loosely clasped on the desk in front of her. She is...

Bargaining for Gabriel

Once upon a time Mokeira talked about motherhood as though she had a right to it. She sat at the marketplace with other women...

Malbec

I was staying in the spare bedroom of my parents' apartment in a colonial town in north central Mexico, enjoying their company and catching...

DeRosa

Ted Cohen (Widower), September 2003 For the...

Faking It

The day before our plane caught fire, Karen Phillips brought up lesbians in the change room after our sixth and...

Mother Miri Full of Grace

When Miri and Ben had sex, he filled her with a million babies, but then didn’t ask her to marry...

Slick Sided

Morgan saw her mother in the bedroom. “I’m a beast,” her mother said. “How am I ever supposed to take my clothes off again?...

Dealclosers

I found my first job in Montreal in the back pages of the English alternative weekly when I saw a telemarketing ad declaring, DEALCLOSERS...