I warned you that my grandmother wouldn’t like you and that you wouldn’t like her. The first time she saw me wearing a flannel jacket with my hair chopped off, she said oh boy here we go. That’s who we’re dealing with. The man she’s been seeing—he goes by “Hickory Frank”—is soft in ways she […]
If the Sun Exploded, We Wouldn’t Know it for Eight Minutes The summer we found the body, Mark and I got sunburned every day at the green pool at the back of the apartment complex and flipped his skateboard off the curb in the parking lot. We never smelled the salty air from the beach […]
Peach Pit The air conditioning kicks off sometime in the night, and Jonah’s gone from bed when I wake, my skin damp, aflame, like someone’s left the stove on all night and day. It’s the middle of June and the air conditioning is still out. Jonah will get to it when he gets to it. […]
