Fresh Trash
Published in Red Ogre Review (December 2021)
Branded
I’m Kleenexing my nose under a sky hosting another Virgin plane. We mirror nature’s flight as we plant Exxon seeds in Miracle-Gro soil packed in the stratosphere […]
Ms. Sky Thunderclaps
At dusk on his backyard square, Coyote drapes his father’s corpse across crawling earthworms in a shallow pit. Lighter fluid sprayed on, a lit match descends before smoke ascends into […]
Corporate Fox
Published in Flash Fiction Forum (2023)
Strawberry Journey
Fox wades his auburn fur through a foggy Market Street’s concentration of bipeds navigating their marrow under muscle under memory selves. At 1st and Market, his hungry eyes spot the […]
Strawberry Begging
On a BART train rumbling under the San Francisco Bay, Fox spots a sign that decrees NO AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLING. In rancid fur with a cavernous stomach, Fox shambles over to […]
Seven Days in Suburbia
On Monday, you brought your emerald-green body into a HOA neighborhood of white, brown, and black-skinned Homo sapiens. After the cobalt force on your home planet eliminated your family, you […]
New Bodies
I peeled myself off my bed and yanked up a shirt huddled in a compressed pile on the floor. Slumping out the door, I waited at the bus stop with […]
He Returned
War still stabbed his muscles into an open bleed as he vaulted to a father of five to children who only felt his horror from the slap of his […]
The Boy Born with a Pinhole Heart
Remember: he came out gasping with a pinhole heart dripping into the expanse of his neonate body. Heart cells reborn every solar cycle since he breathed in an incubator […]