In sandtiger bellies, the young eat the young. You could fit a new-hatched sandtiger pup in your hand, but you shouldn't; they are pink, squishy cartilage, knife-tip teeth, and only the first one survives, chasing siblings down uterine hallways: hide and seek to death. After eating all his brothers, the last one standing sucks yolk like CapriSun from his sharkmom's eggs. By the time the sharkmom gives birth, the pup is the size of a six year old child. 

It’s pity sex for both of us, me and Karen and her glass eye, in a motel room off the interstate.  

It is not easy to remove a heart with a spoon from the chest of a man, nor is it clean. The spoon was purchased 48 hours earlier from the Bed, Bath & Beyond on 9th Street. The Nicole Miller Moments 5 pc Flatware Set was $24.99. The salad fork, dinner knife, dinner fork, and soup spoon were disposed of. Only the teaspoon remained.

In my phone sex voice I say, the quesadilla of the day is caramelized onion and chorizo. Chef makes ‘em special. Sure, I say: $5 house wines, $2 off apps. Would you like to start a tab?

The first time my neighbor's place burned to the ground, I wasn't his neighbor, but he told me about it.  

My Spanish was always too slow to impress my father. I tried not to learn it to spite him. But  that was like not swallowing water in your mouth when there’s no place to spit it out. 

Good evening. I just ate eggs. Breakfast for dinner, is what Robin called it. Is there such a thing as... more

Let’s follow Holger home, they said, and burn his house down.

We were under the bridge. We were trolls; we were engineers. We were... more

The value of a cash gift is on its face, and that, in... more

Carnie lives among piles of porcelain and Tupperware in a storage locker near Conneaut. She lost her job at the prison and then her house... more

EVERY DAY IS SUNDAY

I go to call her for the ribs recipe but then I think how she doesn't respond to my jokes so I go to... more

Stanley K owns a small radio shop on Forest Avenue in Lakewood. 

I walk in, having not seen him in 30... more

I don’t know why, but until I went to her door our neighbor Marie hadn’t spoken to me in more than a year.  I usually only see her in... more

They must have been in Georgia already.  Mile-high pine trees loomed just above titanium light poles.  Rain was coming down at the car... more

Accompanied a young couple for the euthanization of... more

The following are direct quotes from the lost episode of Breaking Bad.

Summary:... more

Dear Sir or Madam,

I feel I need to begin by saying I am a longtime lover of your products. As a single mom... more

She was The Incorruptible, so named by a senior during the most grueling AP World semester ever. “Just one night off, Ms. L,” whined... more

At the diner, when David has been allowed to order a cup of coffee and become a thinking person again, he will begin to attempt to... more

from Bombyonder

After the bird flu it wasn’t safe to eat the chicken or the stuffing. Gloves and knives... more

Suppose the policeman does not come when you call him for help. So what good is the phone? What good is the policeman?... more

Curation

I told my first lie to a girl with a Hans Christian Andersen name, holding onto the metal bars in the playground... more

The three of them were in the car headed eastbound I-90, on their way to Tiny’s Farm, when Millard thought of his first name of... more

He led her blindfolded through the kitchen, down the steps to the backyard. “Birthday girl,” he had whispered to her this morning, offering her coffee in bed. 

"Hills Like White Elephants" on a waffle.