Fiction

Sun fluttered on the exposed brick of our Toronto semi. My husband’s shadow elongated from the open-concept dining room into the kitchen, his figure expansive, his life in fatherhood the same.  He rested his hand on my shoulder, the baby …

DREAM LAKE The long-lost twins sat on the hood of a sunken Cybertruck, silent and still in the crushing cold below the frozen lake. Their long red locks fanned out like atomic bomb blasts in the bitter water, their green …

These are the clinical notes of Dr. Casey Kaderzin for his clients in the month of July, year unspecified. As a disclaimer and reminder, Dr. Casey Kaderzin is not a doctor doctor; rather, he has his Ph.D. in Puppetry and …

“Prompt engineering is the process of writing effective instructions for a model, such that it consistently generates content that meets your requirements. Because the content generated from a model is non-deterministic, prompting to get your desired output is a mix of …

We met at the Labyrinth Bookstore over the new book section. It was near Halloween, so the display books had grotesque covers: a dying sloth, a man impaled on a sword, an A-frame house covered in yellow eyes.  I wore …

A soldier is found at the bottom of a lake. A nuclear site is bombed. A jumbo jet crashes in India after take-off. Senators voice concern that vaccines are being destroyed by the new Health Secretary. Also, the Internet has …

He was fifty now. Grey at the temples, calloused in the soul, and not even surprised that he still winced when he remembered the sound of a horsewhip slicing through hot air in the Philippines. His father had used it …

They decided early on they would never charge admission. Everyone was welcome. Money had nothing to do with it, at least from the sisters’ perspective. Grace was the older of the two. Berenice was eight years her junior. At times, …

She’d read that, after being shot, Andy Warhol wore a corset; extra small with laces to hold himself together. Not just one corset, but many of them over the years, each designed to keep him intact, solid, alive. She didn’t …

THE MAN IS after our females. Despite whatever theories may surface to the contrary, you should know this much is true. When it happens, Greta and Cupcake are wandering the sanctuary somewhere with their sweet hairy chimpanzee asses exposed. And …

MELISSA, MY DAUGHTER, just turned twelve. She loves to hear stories about her mother.  “Tell me again about how she was scared of your drawings.” I can draw people that have never existed, from my imagination, and draw them well. …

At first, he had two keys. House. Car. Then he locked himself out of the car, so he had a duplicate key made and put the duplicate in his wallet. He kept his wallet in his back pocket, and the …