New Roommate
“Who are you?” I yelled at a woodpecker pecking a bedroom nest in my one-bedroom apartment. “Are you Alder?” the woodpecker chatters back. “Yes. This is my Oakland apartment.” “Well […]
Birth Head
Through her delivery room screams, Luna pushed out wailing life. While my genetic shadow had two human arms and two human legs, a lettuce head sat on top of her […]
My Steampunked Universe
When I plop the universe down like a freshwater catch onto my kitchen counter, I shimmy in an engine piston now driving an expanding cylinder: the host to glass galaxies, […]
Skull Walk
Coyote shambles north along San Pablo Avenue. At the West MacArthur Boulevard intersection, he trips over a skull. “Oakland, what is this white sphere my paw crushed a hole through?” […]
My Hairy Roommate
Over twelve lunar cycles, Scarlett’s hair got cyclically caught in the shower drain, a red knot I plucked out and added to the limbed body of my design. Am I […]
Based on a True Story
Back in the beginning, Eve snatched an apple from a branch and tore her teeth into that red sphere. Yet when Adam swallowed the southern hemisphere, a chunk happily lodged […]
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 […]