Minima

Here in the country I look at children’s books when I go to the library because there are hardly any books on art. If…

By Saturday morning her left breast had turned to stone. Grey slate with specks of mica. I’m not surprised, the woman thought. She called…

A girl falls from her balcony while shaking out a blanket. A woman falls off her balcony while shaking out a comforter that stinks…

Nothing looks right except that I’m wrong. All of his memories are seeded from long ago. I think of myself, long ago, and it’s…

“The Shape of a Face” and “Z’s Bones”

A friend and I attended minuscule seminary festivities at which he lied to someone’s mother about my having committed puke. He teased random matrons…

the boys are all very soft, mushy in the middle and crumbling apart at the edges. they’re sent to a special school, a facility, a…

While we are still in Vietnam, my aunt leans over and explains: Take notice of our oxen. They are strong and well fed. And then…

On my grandmother’s loveseat, I thought as I often do of her sitting on it in that small assisted living apartment she moved into…

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