A Catalog of Lies
A guy named Fabian tells you you’re beautiful. He says he hasn’t dated for a while and wants to know all about you. You haven’t dated for years either, but after the end of a long relationship, you’ve been trading messages with men through an online dating site. Fabian is handsome and eight years younger than you. He says he ... Read More
Bark Like Skin
The craggy striated bark of the western red cedar felt like her mother’s arms, coated in eczema so rough, the little girl had always thought her mother might be part tree.
Her mother wasn’t there with her in the forest. Her mother was in bed, her immune system ensuring no young child with fingers sticky coated in the residue of ... Read More
Pulp
Blue Jew
Civility in the Parking Lot
Chicago Saturdays, 1969
Do I call them the lonely years
Mars is the Pick-Me-Up Planet
Interview: Suzanne Feldman
As Within So Without: & other writings by Daniel Barbiero
The Gold Bullet
Warily, she placed her piece—a petite, faux-platinum number that, her nephew had joked, wouldn’t stop a squirrel much less an
Storm Surge
“I wonder what happened,” Jai says, picking up the remote control. “With the hurricane, I mean. It was on the
Complicity
I had just walked out of Russo’s, where I picked up some finocchiona and Sicilian primo sale cheese with black