Fiction Archives - Page 7 of 12

She’d convinced me to wear a crop-top and mini to the party. She’d said, no…

I got tired of readings, concepts, and data. Of being austere and sad as a…

Jamie wakes in a bed that is not her own. It is Mikhail’s bed and…

In the summer that my neighbor’s husband got stopped and sent to Rikers, I rode…

It was a quiet day at the admissions office at NYU. Somwattie and Devika stood…

The cold is a thing any woman can grow accustomed to. Lacey May learned how…

Our mother had been gone now for eleven days. Her longest recess yet. Recess is…

I lie and say this scar’s a gift from my cat. Three inches long, hypertrophic,…

Thank you for that New Year’s Day. That day the monster was on my back.…

Florence Holmes kept her knife in Psalm 94. An eight-inch stiletto with a pearl…