Someone will have to testify, the man says to me, in front of other people, people I don’t know. I don’t know why he is talking to me and …
Jennie, Jake • Rachel Lyon
Jennie became Jake when he was four years old, but the psychologist tells us the first thing to understand is he’s always been a boy. It’s true that when …
His Life in My Hands • Dawn Raffel
Everything I loved was in the water. The sky overturned, his life in my hands, me towing him through another element, a ripple. The world an open mouth. People …
Remembering • Michael J Seidlinger
I received a letter in the mail, which wouldn’t be a big deal if I still received letters in the mail. Well, maybe it doesn’t really qualify as a …
Souvenir • Chandler Klang Smith
In the funhouse mirror, I had a sister. The only one in the group not stretched all out of proportion. There was my father with his black sunglasses – …
Days of Perseids • Clio Velentza
On cool summer dawns Auntie kneaded the bread with droplets of blood. I saw the pin sink into the thumb, the wink, the finger brought to her lips for …