With a thermometer plunged into one orifice or another, a body should register an internal temperature of 98.6, more or less, which begs a…
Where was Bernard? She wiped spilled sugar from the gold-flecked Formica table and began preparing deviled eggs. Henrietta thought about the day she’d told…
“What’s good here?” we ask the waitress with Hello Kitty barrettes. In a suburb of Nagasaki there are fourteen fruit-flavored bus stops, where the…
On the day I ate my lover’s heart I used the fingernail of my index finger – the longest of them all – to…
The Big Mamou is closed now. You used to be able to go in and order a dish called southern eel, and stay all night.…
On a fasted stomach walking past babies and broccoli, yams and empty palms, I turn orange like an orange my skin exposing my overdose…
When the tortillas run out and the stores are closed, my father stands at the counter mixing maiz and water and lime. He finds…