My family made a bigger family to seek out the purest sighting. We tried to grow our family to as many members as possible, and we met in each other’s houses every night. We built…
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Fortune by Lydia Ship
Our god created a flower so that we would seek it; he sent us off in hiding; he arranged all manner of elaborate ways to visit us; he sometimes turned us into animals. He controlled…
Treasure Hunters by Lydia Ship
We were looking for wisdom and saved up for wisdom detectors to use much like treasure hunters moving in the cadence of the blind on stillborn beaches. Then we had to save up for time….
Through the Wall, Night by C.S. Ward
I would like to stay in the cool grey background of the movie Night of the Living Dead. Beyond all the killing, I noticed some beautiful vistas. I pushed away a slow…
Go-Go Can by Christine Beck
As the sixties passed you by in Berkeley, as we limber-limbed young women tumbled onto madras covered beds with guys who turned us on, did you imagine us awakening in what was left of last…