There was a time that you can now no longer remember, when someone scraped you off their shoe and taught you how to be human. How to have arms and legs, how to have a face and a body, how to wear clothes and cut your hair and see things and be seen. There was an adjustment period, but after that it was a gloriously certain time, when meaning could be plucked fully-formed from thin air like ripe fruit. You loved that.… more
Tag Archives: gender
Bolt Action
Fiction by Shaun Anthony McMichaelAt first, Jessica thinks it’s the darkness that her body needs to escape. Their tent’s air pocket of darkness. The forests’ surrounding miles of darkness. She is scrambling away from the darkness. Not the explosions opening wounds into that darkness.… more
Replacement Child
Fiction by Tex GreshamPeople will do almost anything when they lose something like their wallet or phone or child. Sometimes these weakened people are my game.… more
