If your brother really broke his arm. If your brother broke his arm falling from the ash tree in our backyard, the one along the fence. If your brother broke his arm falling from the tree because he’d…

My husband told me he fucked you on a bench in a locker room senior year of high school, so I looked you up on Instagram. I hate you, obviously, because I have to, on principle, but also you have Rae…

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The girl’s mother had a rule: not to whistle at night because the ghosts would come. But all girls are curious so she whistled anyway. When her mother caught her she was scolded. After that, she…

I have my mother’s tongue. Not metaphorically. Not in a poetic, intergenerational trauma kind of way. I mean quite literally. It used to be in her mouth, and now it’s in mine. If you’re normal—that…

Let’s be honest: what each of us wants is to never get eaten by zombies, and the shotgun-shaped truth of the matter is we’re less likely to be ravaged by the ravenous appetites of the dead if someone…