I wanted a snake, so my roommate reluctantly agreed to drive to the snake store. They have all the snakes there, from tiny little garter snakes up to giant pythons, plus the rats and mice and crickets that go into them. But even a starter snake set up was a lot more...
“I understand ma’am, but…if I’m honest, I don’t care. It seems like it’s survival of the fittest anyways. Weak little thing deserves to go.” Nona reached into her fanny pack. “Fine, fine. If you don’t want to protect the forests for the squonk, why not Bigfoot?...
The sky was ink and the stars were pinholes: white light bursting through in a magnificent sparkle. Below, in a field, fireflies mingled with the light of a film projector and the triumphant energy of teenagers out after dark. The field was a drive-in theater, the...
Before I knew about the rose world, I believed in things right in front of me, things I could touch and hold to my chest, manipulate with my hands and mind, and certainly not fairytales or fantasy worlds like the ones in childhood stories, but I was just folding the...
A mass-produced hunk of plastic, shaped vaguely like a human woman, but the proportions all wrong, the painted-on smile too wide, the dead eyes too big. It shouldn’t have a soul, and yet she does. She is meant to be played with, to be loved. A gift for an...
