Experimental & Hybrids

Walking in our old neighborhood, I discover our house has been replaced by a smoothie joint. I go in and ask the woman behind the register if she knows what happened. She is wearing a nametag that says SMOOTHIE ARTIST, …

He’s shaped like a triangle and tells me that stretching after exercise isn’t as important as everyone thinks. I’m skeptical. We’ve been sleeping together for six months in a stretchy, yellowish area of time where nothing seems to matter. Still, …

“Discover by chance on the hinge of a pocket knife some foreign dust—and the world will again seem strange, enveloped in a rainbow mist.”From Do You Remember, Alexander Blok, trans. J. Stallworthy and P. France The outbuilding at my parents’ …

“When it’s done right, [an] arrangement displays the personality of the arranger as much as it does the objects themselves.”Be Your Own Decorator, Susanna Salk A kitchen sink with a view is, by definition, a little luxury: it means that …

(for Rae) 1 I meet Little Brother at our favorite coffee shop, Rainy Day Café, where they serve Thunder and Lightning Bolt espresso and CBD in any form one desires: elixir, tea, chai, hemp-infused sparkling water and hemp biscotti bites …

We looked at the same glossy deck of paint chips with your hand curved around my hip, and you nestled into my neck. The blue, I can see now, wasn’t the same colour for each of us. You took me …

First, I shrivel like a toe in the bathtub. There is no moisture left in my body. It’s in a puddle at my feet. I’m dizzy without it. A kindly young gentleman helps me cross the road. On the other …

The brideship pulls away from the port, sad women in white dresses herded on the deck waving goodbye to their mothers. There are too many brides in town, they have to go. I’m getting off at the first dock, says …

          “If you think going to the Moon is hard,          try staying home.”          —Barbara Cernan, wife of astronaut Gene Cernan Wally Funk (1962) A pool the exact temperature …

Mark and Gail stopped to refuel their bike and themselves. But when they entered the restaurant, the woman who greeted them with menus in her hands said, “We only serve breakfast on Sunday.” “But this IS Sunday,” Mark said. “Yes, …