Green Raincoat

Green Raincoat

The raincoat was a birthday gift the year I turned twelve. It came packaged in a wrapped Wanamaker’s box. She gave it to me after I finished a sandwich of bologna and mustard on Wonder. I didn’t know how she got the box, but I knew the gift wasn’t Wanamaker’s stock....
A Walk-on Part in the War

A Walk-on Part in the War

They’ve taken a chainsaw to every 24-pack of extra-large brown eggs in your supermarket, they’ve hijacked all the Jeeps in a five-mile radius, they’ve replaced all the movies on Pirate Bay with their edited- for-television versions, they’ve tossed all your frozen...
This House Withstood

This House Withstood

The blue plaster walls are cracking which we should have been able to see as long as this house has stood. I catch us looking different directions on the highway, cars zipping through; we nearly collide something cosmic. Meaning our souls are ready to ascend from our...