Ellipsis Zine

It all started when the books began speaking to her. It was innocent enough at first, just instructions on when to water the plants and recommendations for a new eyeliner.…

Ella XXXXX, age 10, of Medford, died passed away entered the next life passed away on November 9, 2005. Ella was the daughter beloved daughter of XXXXX and XXXXX XXXXX,…

He got skittish when I called him beautiful. He would change the subject, talk over me about something mundane. He would come on to me like this: he would stand…

Her summer job was to check off names on airplane boarding dockets against hotel rooming lists. This was so long ago that all documentation was on scraps of paper, often…

From: richard.burbage@globe.comTo: will.shakespeare@stratford.com Subject: The Three Witches                         Hi Will Thanks for changing the title of Two Dudes of Verona. It wasn’t right, like Romeo and Cleopatra and The Merry Wives…

Dangerous things, windows — for their transparency and fragility, and soooo tempting from the outside in. I should know — spend my life gazing through them. Doing it now as…

He is from Chicago. He tells me this with his hand barely touching my lower back, nervous to make too much physical contact too soon. His other hand is holding…

Do you still think of the colours stitched into her dress, the hem suddenly caught in lowlight, as life’s violet hands close the chiffon drapes? Does the cold come through…

The bed yawns wide and white. Made stark by degrees, streetlights and the glow of their phones. In time with the low hum of his earbuds, she traces words on…

The whole neighbourhood had expired. Only a few houses were still standing, all on their final exhale. ‘They did warn us,’ said Grandpa. ‘Told us the average lifespan of a…

Underwater you can’t hear much—you can’t hear Mom and Dad arguing after you’re supposed to be asleep, you can’t hear your mother crying in the kitchen over a pot of…