Tag: romance

  • Fictive Dream: The Almost

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    The Almost: a school bus driver passes the early morning hours in rural Florida reading her favorite romance novel while idling in her bus before the kids show up. As the sensual language of the book, “Heather’s Rake,” provides her with an escape from the mundane, she finds comfort in the tension and anticipation of…

  • To Bethany, with teeth.(Reprinted here, read in full.)

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    To Bethany, with teeth. debuted in Luna Station Quarterly earlier this Spring. I am reprinting it here today in full. An odd little morality tale featuring witchcraft gone wrong…gone right. (Painting above, Buried in the Sand, by me.) To Bethany, with teeth. Michael dunks the beaver carcass into a bright blue drum of Strip-All. He…

  • BULL: Spiral

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    Spiral: A young art school chick and an aging male nude art model’s friendship snaps and irreparably unwinds. Did they ever really know each other at all? Spoiler alert: NOPE! To be published later this year in BULL. Painting above from the Gnome Alone series, by me.