June 2022

Jill shambles into the AA meeting. She’d first come out of curiosity. Enough friends had mentioned her drinking problem over the years. She kept coming for inspiration. People started lining up to see her drunken comedy sets. Nothing funnier than an alcoholic cracking jokes about sobriety. Except one that falls off stage in a drunken […]

The singing bird was flying sky to sky, This place was a new world it did not know It sang its song as it went low and high There wasn’t anywhere it didn’t go. How wonderful it felt to flap its wings And to be far beyond the gilded cage Here, its melody rejoicefully rings

Luna’s mother peered out the front door window. “Luna… why is there a line of old people?” Luna turned red. She had always volunteered to go to the grocery store with her mom. She loved old people. Their white hair and wrinkled skin. Luna would get a pain in her heart when she saw them

She picks up the box. 16 years of marriage and these are the only belongings that are hers alone. She walks down the hall as the walls burst into flame. ​ Fire shoots down the hall as if leading her the way. Its tendrils play with her hair but do not touch her. ​ Neighbors burst out

I had wanted to see my grandparents’ house one last time before it was demolished. So when my flight was canceled, I couldn’t stop crying. Tomorrow my grandparents’ house would be nothing but rubble.  I must have fallen asleep at the airport—I must be dreaming… because I’m looking up at the yellow house. I hear