Jewel by Ulrica Hume
Reader, she killed me. It was a spring day like any other: balmy, of an imponderable sweetness. It was the sort of day one believes in oneself and one’s erratic…
Reader, she killed me. It was a spring day like any other: balmy, of an imponderable sweetness. It was the sort of day one believes in oneself and one’s erratic…
They had been talking for what felt like hours before Christopher noticed the walls crumbling down around them. He’d been too transfixed on the movement of her lips when she…
The diagnosis is like having someone punch you in the face, when all along you thought they were aiming for your gut. The doctor is still talking, spouting words like…
Nerys sits at her table in the window, knitting mechanically with pin-thin fingers and squinting at the world through wire-rimmed glasses. Propped up in front of her is a sign.…
When you revisited your old neighborhood, all that remained of the past was space proximate to a missing home. Powerlines sagged and trees wilted—absent your impressions of future comfort food…
I’m not old enough to have been there when it happened, but I have it on the good authority of my aunt that Circe never actually lifted the enchantment that…
He stands up erect as she approaches the table. She is a vision of sea breeze and morning glory; her stride, a diaphanous runway walk. Subduing a rising blush, he…
Kneeling on the crackling wood of the pier, I lean towards the surface of the water as close as I dare without touching the surface. I squint, peering into the…
Before we get where we’re going, you’ll find out about Kurt Cobain. I’ll try to hide it from you, blocking your view of the magazine stand, but you’ll know: the…
Mini nodded in agreement with her mother. Everyone else at school had their name on a necklace or a tee-shirt or a tattoo, her mother said. A neon sign attached…
J, Could you please pick up a few things for me while you’re at the grocery store? They are vital to my survival. I’m not exaggerating. You always think I’m…
The cows gather closely one week in September. Diana has been experimenting with bunches of carnations for her daughter’s wedding, rotating each stem from one brightly-dyed water to the next…