Xanadu
 

I stare at the old picture, reminiscing about the past. My art teacher's words jumble and melt into the background.

For $250.00 an hour I can be a home. I literally get paid to give long-lasting hugs. Nothing risque or sexual, I just try to fill a void...

I skipped down the stairs hurriedly to meet my parents at the dinner table on our backyard porch. Rounding the glass circle-on-legs...

I always knew my days were numbered. I never realized how few there were. I used to live my life peacefully, nothing more than a tabletop...

As I sit in calculus, I read the note he left in my car for the hundredth time: I’m so sorry I cheated on you. Forgive me?

I “If you can guess what I have in my pocket, you can have it,” taunted Nootiakok as he prodded Nanurjuk’s upper back with a bony...

April flies in each year with a cape of marbled pink and white on its shoulders. The outstretched limbs of magnolia and cherry blossom...

Upon cracked, tectonic earth, a row boat sits on a ledge of sand, still unclaimed. Brackish barnacles line the boat in constellational...

She simply picked it up out of boredom— its rust-kissed frame, deflated tires, and that chain that made it sound like an orphaned bird...

My boots slosh in the mixture of sand in the snow as I rounded the first intersection on my way home. The Sun is going down earlier now,...