Fiction

Andy spent thirty minutes in the hundred-degree heat talking the price of a juniper bonsai tree down from $50 to $20.

Loneliness replaces the minerals in the cavities of my bones because this is what happens when girls turn into women.

I won’t waste time trying to be remembered.

Blaze felt hard things. I didn’t know how to help him.  

The truth was that this lack of privacy had extended to everything in his life, no matter how mundane.

No matter what scaffolding he constructs around the ruins of his life, the memories find him, and Mickey can only cringe.

Last week he said he'd disinherit me if I didn't help him win.

You were so happy that year, the year that everyone saw what you’d been keeping to yourself.

“You know what’s easier to catch than a greased pig?”