You and Your Middle-Aged Cat
by Meg Pokrass issue 69 WHEN YOU RETURN TO UMA’S HOUSE, she and a girlfriend are drinking wine, cooing over a brochure of eye makeup shades. Uma’s girlfriend looks at you as if something is amiss. “You look cute today,” she says, slicing her eyes up at you. “Is that a new shade of lipstick?” […]
A Tomb Dug Under Mother
by Dustin M. Hoffman issue 69 Above your bed where you lie belly up, Hector’s mom rattles around in the kitchen. She’s home like a haunting. She must’ve forgotten her midnight lunch at work. This woman, your unwilling adopter, lives her life reversed, nocturnal, a living-dead working stiff. You close your eyes and imagine her […]
Hostitality
by Nola Propst issue 69 Thinking of South Carolina summers I think of the sensation of biting into a rotten apple. I think of the way in which my teeth sink into an elastic skin and through to a pulpous body, then the taste of decay. And No matter how vigorously I scrape my tongue […]