"Remembering the World" in Electric Velocipede

(For now, the world flat and finite like his mind. The ocean’s crisp boundaries spill over four corners like memory, disappearing.)

"A Season with the Geese" in Abyss & Apex

Once when we were young, we flew to Europe with the geese.

"The Lament of the Naga's Mother" in Abyss & Apex

He said he loved my missing feet and treasured every scale I shed.

"The Passionate Oven" at Transcriptase

Mr. Barowicz is a gourmet chef. His spatula, teasing, stirs milky sauce agile fingers dipping, tongue darting to lick

"Inside Her Heart" in Ideomancer

my wife sits down in the breakfast nook. "I'm done being a woman," she says. "I'm going to try being a house."

"String Theory" in Ideomancer

If the universe is a tapestry woven             with sheer silk threads that unite subatomic                         quarks with the whistling vastness of the milky way

"Invitation to Emerald" in Lone Star Stories

In utopia, birds parade       across skies of scarlet             or amber, or cerulean.

"The Dream Vacation" in Mothering Magazine

Sprinkle cooking oil over your pan until it sizzles like sunlight sizzling a tropical shore.

"The Oracle on River Street" in Goblin Fruit

She stands on the sidewalk, holding out her hands to passersby like a collection bowl of translucent, veined flesh.

"Elfin Song" in Goblin Fruit

heat waver horizons fire flares, hidden faces eyes sleek like cats

"Pro-Life Patter" at Alas, a Blog

what if he’s the next Mozart if he cures cancer could end racism

"The Fate of Hitler's Brain" in Flashquake

Researchers have revealed: Hitler had syphilis. It rendered him insane.

"Road" in Flashquake

black boil hands hot tar feet bubbling flesh to flat.

Header illustrations by Sam Weber (left and right) and Fantasio (center).