Out of Place by Suzanne Hicks
I was born to live on land like the others before me. For a time, I did, until my legs started to curl just below my knees. It wasn’t...
I was born to live on land like the others before me. For a time, I did, until my legs started to curl just below my knees. It wasn’t...
He’d been wishing the horse his whole life. As a boy, he managed the tail, pinned to nothing out back. As he grew older, the outline of...
I lie on my back in the clearing, holding a telescope to my eye, tired or dying - I don’t know which. I used to look for them in...
He'd always meant to learn to use the washing machine in the flat, but the instructions were a foreign language. His lack of domesticity...
I have a secret I clutch in my hands. It’s that I miss you. Who can I tell – my brother, my coworker, my husband? None of them would...
Strapped for cash, Cameron Diaz sold her digital image rights to a start-up called GeneTech. Back then, no one really knew where it could...
If reincarnation is real, I want to come back as campfire food. A jacket potato, baked in foil. Rolled out of the bonfire with a large...
The stars, when they fall, fall like rain, like broken-wing birds, like falling stars. The sky goes velvet black in their absence. They...
After a day's hike, you arrive and head straight for the center, where the tiny star sits crying in a dimly lit heap. All of the other...
When Earth wakes up thirsty and reaches for the nightstand and can't find the glass she always sets out the night before, she'll think,...
The teacup rattles on its saucer as it crosses the space between wife and husband. The wife raises her eyebrows for a refill, then...
With a shopping basket in his hand, he stands there. He took the bus. Others around him came riding upon genetically engineered Great...
When one of them was 8 and the other 9, they drew horses on the printer paper one of the dads brought home from his office. Green horses,...
You say you can’t bear to live with my parents anymore. I love them, but I choose you, so we move out of their warm basement and into an...
Follow the irrigation ditch beyond the railway line and you come to a thicket of willow trees. Between them the hem of a chain-link fence...
In 1905, Mina Benson Hubbard led a successful expedition across the Labrador wilderness, then published A Woman’s Way Through Unknown...
They were heart-shaped lollipops stuck to your jumper, black raindrops splattered up your calves and across the hem of your Sunday best...
I've been watching Dad suffer all weekend in Yellowstone National Park. He hasn't been the same since the divorce. Our campsite is on a...
When the gorilla arrived at the front door the last thing Edna expected was this desperate hollow feeling inside. She lived day to day...
We have come here to walk, convinced that a change of scenery and aimless miles are the answer, or the beginnings of an answer. An...