Why I Cannot Live in Great Falls: A Poem by J.D. Smith
It’s not the leather-smelling shelves at Hoglund’s / or the boots I haven’t learned to walk in.
Ampydoo Cartoon #53
An octopus cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
The Proof in Her Gut
As if she did not know exactly what slipped inside her own body. As if she did not know what stayed.
Ampydoo Cartoon #52
A seagull cartoon from Alan Michael Parker.
Dosai!
She pulls into her garage, one thing on her mind.
Fifty-Fifty
For once, the coach was paying attention.
Woodwork
She saw the length of her own life, and she cut the planks accordingly.
Ampydoo Cartoon #51
A fast forward cartoon by Alan Michael Parker.
Speedrun
That was why she wasn't with me at the fair that night, why she wasn't in the accident.
My Imaginary Friends; or, The Metonymy of Desire
The versions of them I used to know, my almost-friends, exist only in the archive of my faulty memory.