My husband hated our child even before it was born. He’d wanted it more than I had, at the start of things. He’d clung to my waist with tears in his eyes, and had convinced me against all my doubts and indecision to keep it. I could have gone without. I was thirty-three. I likedContinue reading “My Child is Doing Terrible Things To Us All”
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The Killing Sea
The ancestors of mermaids that came to land in human form can never go back to the sea. If they do, they become foam— but we yearn for the water, we that are stranded here, a biological impulse in us to join with our sisters again. We still choose to live by the ocean, unableContinue reading “The Killing Sea”
Magdala
From the steps of the railway station she descended from the rain, a woman like quartz, like dusk, and amber. She walked as if without true weight. Her hair, though soaked, floated about as if it, too, were water. Her eyes—so dark—looked through me. They were the holes of stigmata within her face, black andContinue reading “Magdala”
