Abraham goes to the brook at dawn. A good time of day, fresh, like a fawn, and he will be one there too. Not everyone knows how to use a dawn, but Abraham is versed in ancient arts.

Julia Marie Slocomb died without ceremony in the heat of a West Virginia afternoon.

Mr. Winthorpe Squibbler, an obscure novelist who lived in Birmingham, was a quiet man with a subdued personality and a knack for last-minute twists, for the time being, one of his only private vices in which he indulged as a narrative voice.

Gemma had one blue eye and one brown and each child she gave birth to was not her own. 

Natalie Sutherland, née Baraka, née Ramos, née Casarano, née Rabinovich had always wanted to be a black widow. A murderess. It had been an obsession of hers since she was quite young.

A clawed, carnivorous canard,


the mocking-voiced camelopard


is partly leopard, partly camel,


wholly myth and maybe mammal.

She’d lost her head, but has a new one now.


Their little Audrey played dolls all alone.


Upstairs she went with a dried-out soup bone.


Not quite financially stable

Never was she ever able

To purchase a barn for the not quite bought horses

Her pleading through marriages led to divorces

And old age approached with a bang

I dreamt that Vikings sacked and pillaged,
razed to coals a conquered village

I dreamt that Vikings sacked and pillaged,
razed to coals a conquered village

My parents were an interesting pair. Mother, who we later referred to as “Sherrie” or “Ma,” was a Jewish American art therapist. Nothing boxy like “Mom” could ever suit her.

Miss Helena Orobos of Upingly was considered the finest badminton player in the county. She had her shuttlecocks made specifically by Feerer’s and Sons of Lower Palliton Falls.

If you come over you'll find we're fierce friends. Like bottles and knives we're eminently useful but have sharp edges.

First there was the building of the sets, but he enjoyed that part of the labor, transforming the many rooms of his Victorian home into living narratives with lumber, paint, and scrap metal.

Professor Tinderbrooks’ Hauntingly Horrific Extravaganza (featuring Mordecai the Ghost) begins each night when the stage lights dim bit-by-bit. On this particular evening, the heightened murmurings of the audience dims alongside the lights.