Priyanka (I/II)
She fled him as a fish, as a duck, and as a goose, but she was caught in the arms and wings of Zeus. So the goddess Nemesis bore four children. And these had children, in their turn, and they more...
View ArticleStupid Words and their Stupid Power, Anyway (I/III)
“It is the elephant,” Melanie says. Liril looks at her. Melanie is laughing. She is looking upwards at the sky. She is hugging her hands to her own chest now and it is awful and Liril wants to cry but...
View ArticleForsaken of their Gods (II/III)
Now it was always Billy’s conception that he should be as God to Melanie: that she should know him as a person knows their God, absolute, primal, preceding all other things in his authority, and at...
View ArticleWhat Do You Do with a One-Winged Cherub? (VII/VII)
It is 1998 and Micah comes home and Melanie’s sitting on the couch. She’s wearing a suit and she’s wearing shades and she’s got a nametag on. It says, “Melanie.” Just Melanie. It doesn’t say anything...
View ArticleGreen (III/V)
It is September 27, 2002. The sun has gone down into the sea. John dyes his hair green. He rinses it off. He rinses it again, and again, until the water comes out clean, and he looks into the sink. He...
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