Sudden Prose: Prose Poetry and Short-Short Stories

Antico Adagio Bring down the lights. Bring out the stars. Let the record sing; the vibraphone; the violin; the gong. We call this charm...

from "Of Wife" i   On the Manner in Which Wife Introduces Her Self The marriage counselor has me sit on his chaise longue...

the outside air Though it's still blue, the mist here is not the future mist and the rain not the same rain and the corner field ...

New Territories When I first get off the plane, the heat hits me, tropical, alien. For once, I’m no different....

This Is the End    It's 1999 and we're rehearsing the school play – a devised piece set at the end of the world, in a motel...

What did the orange gain                                            when it lost its 'n'? Orotundity and foreignness--an orange ...

Pancake Oh! The horror vacui of the crevice between refrigerator and wall. I call my reliable caulker, and she arrives after lunchtim...