relationships

Flower Shop

Five The 300-balloon arch is twenty-five feet long, a candy-colored display of peach, gold and…

The One-Eyed Bat!

The guy I’m dating in Ann Arbor is The One-Eyed Bat! He wrestles with a…

Escape

Ivan was the one who put the thought into her head. She would have been…

LINA & BABY

On a Saturday evening at a 5-for-Rupees 500.00  beauty salon, Lina is getting her eyebrows…

Hector’s Woman

Gloria walked into La Media Noche bodega tired and hungry. She’d worked a double shift…

A Closed Circuit

This flash piece reminds us of the many ways we’ve all been “washed in loneliness.”…

My Big Gay Essay

1. When I was sixteen, my best friend and I found a bolt of bright,…

The Algorithm Falters

The boy on Match says he wants a girl like Proverbs 31:10. I haul a…

How to Date a Thugboy, artboy, nerdboy or papichulo: remix of a Junot Diaz theme

Wait for your sister and your father to leave the apartment. You’ve already told them…

Two Poems: All I want is you / Dear Home

All I Want Is You –a golden shovel after U2   Junior year, I fell…