Reductio ad absurdum, or “proof by contradiction,” is a rigorous mathematical proof that establishes the truth of a proposition by...

My daughter quickly outgrew me as a botanist. I potted and killed all varieties of flora, raised them for slaughter, all in hopes of a...

Previously published in Sledgehammer Lit Larry lived on the ground. Gravity kept his slender nose, his deep-socketed eyes, his pouchy...

In my gray joggers and Harvard sweatshirt, running my hands over the vegetables to find the good ones, the same way my mother did all...

on the taxi ride home, the Driver plays everybody wants to rule the world and sinks a marlboro cigarette in three drawn-out, pensive...

a nesting doll self of Sad Girls / & i hate listening to advice i drunk / dialed my ex every fall weekend soggy & hardening / into old...

Previously published in the Aurora Journal and Eunoia Review. It’s early sunrise when our Volvo finally stops. Out the window, the sky...

Ama requests (一) help to collect fruit from the tree (二) outside. She hands me a green garbage (三) bag and points to where I need to...

“And we will never be alone in this world No matter what they say We're gonna be okay” -The Mountain Goats “San Bernardino” Two cups of...

CAST THE MAN: A man in his early to mid-20s, floating his way through life with a happy-go-lucky attitude. THE WOMAN: A woman in her...

Typhoid Mary Would Like to Address You From Her Lonely Bungalow on North Brother Island, Where She Was Imprisoned During the Years...

I didn’t know about the time bomb. Did you? I asked everyone I knew, which was only the people who were there with me when it happened....

Just three lads walking down the street. Just three lads in their suits, walking down the street, carrying packs of beer. Tinnies. Just...

I. because every year the salt-coloured field of ice glides over the lake’s silent body outside my window like an unmarked tombstone....

i pick my teeth out, fingers stained red and tongue skating over empty gaps; practice speech sitting cross-legged on a bathroom floor,...