She’d Always Been Sure He’d Outlive Her by Kathryn Silver-Hajo
It was the meanness—like embalming fluid shoring him up.
Linguistics by Kelly Pedro
The word of the day is chartreuse, a variable color averaging a brilliant yellow green. Origin: Once Latin, now French. Used in a sentence: Elyse knew why the chartreuse sweater was on clearance—the threads were starting to fray, and it clearly wasn’t well made, but Elyse bought it anyway because she found something about it charming.
God’s Gift by Audrey NIVEN
Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with you as you stoat down the street, hungover, shoes not tied.
‘Ho, Mary!’ he shouts over the traffic.
Gonna Be a Poet by Tom Vowler
Between hits we hang out at the beach, perched naked on salt-rimed stanchions, cocking a leg high like we’re the Karate Kid, before tumbling into the waves’ icy maw, where we bawl so hard even the gulls are offended.
Development by Nan Wigington
In the development, nothing grew except concrete, asphalt, pink ranches, and brown split levels.