Let’s pretend I never broke your arm—though it was an accident—when you were little, oneof those days we climbed up the pitched chicken coop and I lay down against sticky asphaltshingles under the bak...

At any point during the past month have you felt pleasure in your body? Pleasure, that rambunctious barking dog weaving round your feet, leaping and toppling you, paws on your shoulders, while you sta...

At any point during the past month have you felt pleasure in your body? Pleasure, that rambunctious barking dog weaving round your feet, leaping and toppling you, paws on your shoulders, while you sta...

Lovely, vivid piece up this week for y'all. Sink your teeth into "Suburban Fable" from @NBrogdonWrites Link: https://t.co/fe9HOlIn6Q

Our Children Have Turned to Kittens At first they were blind little hand warmers piling on us mothers, all warm, cozy bodies and colored furs, their sloe-eyed faces, exquisite with whiskers. We wer…

By Nicole J Brogdon

By Nicole J Brogdon

Nicole Brogdonbumpy webbed feet scratching her chest, beak pecking her arms as she enfolds it— what’s she supposed to do with this creature?

The tumor shows up the size of a lemon, protruding off her side. And soon it’s a Florida grapefruit, ruby red, looking up over the waistband...

YouTube video by Flash Frontier

YouTube video by Flash Frontier

We Were Hungry Enough to Eat a Horse

We Moved to the Country for the Quiet, But by Nicole Brogdon The cicadas chirped maniacally and the mosquitoes buzzed like angry violins, tiny bodies carrying West Nile virus. Two writhing snakes h…

Tiny Little Babies My sister Sarah texts me our secret emoji code–squirrel, Portuguese flag, martini glass–which means no questions, I need you now. We’ve only used this once, when Mom showed up at...

Nicole BrogdonOnce, I was small and he was a giant, making me jump for the razor strap hanging above the toilet, to whip me.

My father wanted “a dog with big balls.” So he brought home an ex-police German shepherd, brown with black saddle markings, a Nazi dog. “Bernhardt”, his tag read. Dad the animal’s chest until he lu…

ALT: a white cat is standing on its hind legs on a floor .