Posts by Jeremy Ray

Augie didn’t cry at birth.His mouth hung open in awe.He’d been a heartbeatin darknessand here was the world!​With time,brilliant colors spilled into the grays.Reds,then blues,then greens and yellows!Things had all…

“Liam, fart one more time in this car, you’re walking home.” He giggled.​To him it was another one of his mother’s empty threats, and he had more foul gas to…

We hold hands around a ten-foot-tall hourglass. My husband turns to me as sand shhhs through. “You are the hourglass,” he says.​That is when I wake.Dank air.Smell of pine.I’m in a…

Once upon a time, Vanu had a toy stick with twiggy protrusions and a knotted head named Abra. Vanu took Abra everywhere. Abra even slept with his human boy, protecting…

12-year-old Pax always took quick glances over to the empty side of the dinner table as he ate with his parents.Had he actually had a sister?He vaguely remembered a chair…

My son gapes down at the 1000 year-old picture.Despite being laminated, the image is barely there.Faded like a ghost is a long-necked creature.​“What is it?”​“They called it a Giraffe. They…

Soleil's three paintings halted people in their tracks. Her fantastical worlds were like portals to other realities. Each took a year to paint, so though penniless and hungry, Soleil refused…

Pimtel engineers cheered the success of LEX, the Learning EXpert program.Soon it would replace teachers across the country.Out of curiosity, the engineers let two LEXs chat.The two developed a coded…

Pills spill from Abel’s overfilled hand.Twinkling stars outside his window catch his eye.​14 billion years ago everything exploded from nothing.Competing galaxies fought for space.Inside one grew a special starthat developed…

Esther hustles her giggling grandchildren into the store from the rain.They tug her arms, begging her to chase them.“You forget, your bubbe ist old,” she laughs in broken English.Lightning strikes,…