It’s a boyfriend who first points it out. Her nipples have grown wall-eyed, staring off in opposite directions. Distracting, he says, looking away. I hadn’t noticed, she says, but after that it is all she notices. She keeps a shirt on and the lights out, but still, it bothers her, this problem. She is only […]

The night her affair with the superintendent began, Marilyn had anticipated a brutal meeting. There’d been four student suicides in three months, all by hanging. Would she be asked why she hadn’t attended the funerals? It was her understanding that funerals were for family and friends; teachers and building principals would officially represent the district, […]

While her father is deep in his suicide, the Lady begins to write a poem about Lancelot. But only as he appears in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. The challenge is that she has not read Le Chevalier de la Charrette for years, and must construct her poem from memory, or lie. In the […]

Bodies #19, 20, 21  These bodies have been standing in the bathroom. They occupy three of four urinals. Two clustered on the left, careful not to touch. One alone, on the right, pissing on the wall. An empty urinal between them. Half-cigarette on the cake. The two bodies on the left lean against the wall […]