Sudden Prose: Prose Poetry and Short-Short Stories

XXXII      They said that the god was coming to visit. The bustling began at dawn. We set out the best tablecloth, the most exquisite ...

IX Last night again I saw the chest of drawers, the oldest, from my grandmother's wedding, my mother and her sisters' youth, m...

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...