Ellipsis Zine

I wasn’t expecting to see you there, tongue lolling, amber eyes, pleading. Your fur was drenched from the rain. You were shivering on the step, do you remember? I could…

The stars shone bright and the sliver moon hid behind the Stuckey’s neon sign. They’d been driving all night and Clem’s neck was knotted so tightly she could barely turn…

The first twin arrived screaming and scrunched, as expected. The doctors, though, were not yet smiling. There was tugging and frozen expressions from the midwife and the surgeon before the…

1. The cook asks the Prince to pick some rosemary for their suppertime dish. The Prince has been fearful of rosemary since childhood. When he bends close to the rosemary…

It was our seventeenth anniversary. I bought him a voucher for a workshop. He loved it. Never thought of doing it himself but was always intrigued by the practice, he…

Most spiders have four pairs of eyes. That’s eight eyes. And 56 knees. That’s seven knee joints per leg. I’m really good at my times tables. Mum’s cooking tea. She…

My fiancé’s sister Marcie convinced me to come on the promise of catharsis. How it goes, she says, driving us to the park, dashboard fan parting her ocean of curls,…

Bob Bell had trouble breathing. It was the basement. The damp. The mold. The days down there with the cash registers and barber chairs. Bob wore his dead father’s clothes.…

At St. Christopher School in Kent, Ohio, they still made you go outside for recess in eighth grade. So my friends and I would gather in a circle in the…

Staring at the green stuck on my finger, I was judging the sagging piece of coriander for allowing shades of ginger in its body. You were standing with your back…

Hermes, the messenger god, lives in Menlo Park and works at Facebook.  Obvi. OMG I can’t stop looking!  I can’t, I can’t!  It’s like a million train wrecks a minute.…