Beyond the Body by Lynsey May
There are one hundred and fifty students in the room, seven to a body. Unsure where and how to stand, they keep a cautious distance. In time, they will cleave…
There are one hundred and fifty students in the room, seven to a body. Unsure where and how to stand, they keep a cautious distance. In time, they will cleave…
Stacks/ Jerry’s halfway through his second volunteer shift at the library, wheeling his cart between the stacks. Collecting books to be shelved is the only thing he knows how to…
It was the summer of secrets. My brother Mason, withdrawn and glassy, only appeared from his room at dinnertime, blinking. He had a new odor about him that made me…
The first steps into the water are tepid and unfamiliar. The soles of her feet squish against the moss-covered rocks that line the sandy shoreline and the beginning of the…
After drifting around the world for months, take a massage course in Bali, then slope back to London and move in with Takeshi, a man you barely know, a socially…
The crawlers are finding their way into the spaces, which gape from the vibration of dissonance. You fear they will unpeel you to that fat stalk of fraudulence. The crawlers…
Brett spent his weekends at the aquarium. He had a special permit to study the fish. He was writing a thesis. One day he invited me to see his experiment.…
Maria could say something like, “It’s fine, I ate earlier.” Or, “I’ll have something when you’re in bed.” Or maybe, “Mummy’s not hungry tonight, babe, you finish it.” And then…
I They sit side by side on the train. To anyone else, they may as well be strangers. He feels her warmth pressing against him and is comforted. He scratches…
One: Your morning breath that she used to laugh through to press her lips to yours now makes her nose scrunch like the paper bag she suggests you breathe into…
It swirled inside her belly, rising, climbing, scaling her insides. The sour-bile truth stretched across her tongue like a venomous, roaming snake. But fear was bigger. And shame was easy…
These are some things you don’t yet know. To suck in your belly. To pull at the flab on your thighs as you stand in front of a mirror and…