"Rachel hung up on her mother while she was telling Rachel about her niece's birthday party. The abrupt silence was packed with glass. Rachel stared at the dark screen of her phone until the greasy prints bothered her. She wiped the phone across her jeans and set it face down on the table. It rang. She brushed at crumbs."
Category: Published
New Poem: “Nervous Bambi” in Impossible Archetype Issue 3
”I’m dazzled by headlights / while flaming forest fire sits / smug on my couch under my roof / smoking up his coming out to me / like its air itself. He told me over the phone. / He’s here now. I pull from the breast / pocket of my work shirt a folded list / of questions I wrote.”
New Poem: “Looking Ahead”
"I’ve seen the eclipse already. / I’ve seen how it begins: / the radiant sun, the vanished / moon. See how they are going / to collide, the many decisions / the moon made, the sun in its / place and bright and not waiting, / but willing."
My First Published Poem: “Roadside Freak Show” in Impossible Archetype Issue 2
"The thing crafted from fabric and plaster, / more pile of dirt and wet cardboard / than realistic human skeleton, lies / under glass in a white cinderblock / coffin elevated over the concrete floor / in the last of three corrugated steel sheds / at the roadside attraction."
New Poem: “Condemn”
"Condemn / Condemn / when necessary / Condemn / Condemn white supremacists kkk nazis / whatever name gone by Condemn / always"
Tiny Donkey Editor’s Note: “Ancient Moments of Telling”
"Biologists reconstruct the descent histories of life forms on planet Earth as the tree of life, its dense trunks and branches leading from common ancestors to new species. Such phylogenetic relationships are not limited to biology."
Tiny Donkey Editor’s Note: “Magic Mirrors on Every Wall”
"Locations are connected by wormholes."
Fairy Tale Review Fairy-Tale Files: “Cosplay Buffet”
"How far are people willing to alter their appearance?"
Tiny Donkey Essay: “What We Lose”
"What must a boy lose to become a little bird? In “The Juniper Tree,” by the Brothers Grimm, the boy loses more than just his head and his life after he is murdered by his evil stepmother."
Fairy Tale Review Fairy-Tale Files: Once Upon a Microchip
"In 'A Toy Princess,' a fairy tale from the 1877 collection On a Pincushion by English writer Mary de Morgan, an emotional and expressive princess named Ursula grows up in a kingdom of such incredible politeness that its subjects have demonized almost any form of empathy or feeling."
Fairy Tale Review Fairy-Tale Files: “The Technologists Grimm”
"New medical technologies may not change boys into birds or the monster-laden into attractive spouses, but they can radically transform both the quality and life expectancy for people suffering from a variety of ailments."
New Essay: “A Haunting” on Hi
"So when I saw the lizard in my bathroom I decided to let it be. I certainly wasn’t going to kill it, and the other option was to carry it outside, where it was cold and I wondered what beasts might prey on it as soon as I shut the door to my apartment."
New Short Story: “If Everyone Was Standing Outside My Door” on Hi
"If everyone was standing outside my door, there would be people six deep between my door and the brick wall that separates the apartment complex from the parking lots and roads of this suddenly populated land."
New Essay: “Why We Go to the Ocean” on Hi
"We don’t go to the ocean because there is salt water in our blood. The pH and salt content of our blood might reflect our evolutionary path from the ocean to land, but the physiological requirements to support a periodic human migration would be staggering. Imagine the difficulty someone would have with blood singing for ocean and them without access. Our literature would float with the sorrow."
New Poem: “A Poem Constructed at the University of Arizona Poetry Center” on Hi
"human / civilised the most popular sound"
Article Published: “No Graveyard” in Cryonics Volume 29.1
"Alcor is no graveyard."
