Fiction

Opposable
How do I write with these frantic fingers Left index plugs tearing right aorta Right hand holds closed ripping left ventricle I am hopelessly, entirely

One
I can feel the evening sun, warm on my face, but the chill of the wind coaxes me to pull my coat tighter around me.

A Beggar’s Opera House
She was suspicious that everyone in the room was melting. The man sitting at the coffee table directly in her line of sight was

Blind Devotion
I jack off to one of the pictures of her I have saved on my computer and after I’m done I send her a message to tell her

The Solution
I talk to myself. I have to. No one else will listen. No one else understands. Even if they did, I wouldn’t dare expose

Black Shrunken Blemish
When Frances had to speak publicly, her legs shook. As a kid, she had grown faster up than she had out and she had felt