This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. I cried when I found pictures from my years in prison. I closed the peeling lid of the box, but it was no use. My hands had no fingers, my teeth had become bone and grandpa’s face [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. Claudia kept falling. The coarse chunk of a rope was too damn loose. Why didn’t they have some manual on how to hang yourself? She was standing on the bathtub with the noose dangling from her neck [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. Mazurka Here’s the deal. You go to a baseball game. You’re a spectator so you sit, you eat hotdogs, drink beer and you watch. You clap, you scream, rally for your team, rage on the other team, [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. Breakfast Leslie could hardly eat her croissant this morning. For the past six months she’d been scarfing down anything that came within the vicinity of her mouth like a whale. Ice cream, cookies, pizza, popcorn. She barely [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. Hugo had been waiting for his chance to get the hell away from the stench and tedium of another day working at Burger King. The same somnolent grubs made their way in every morning for coffee and [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. “We never get to do things together, honey. This is incredibly soothing and it’s a great way to start your new life. I’m so excited you’re coming back home!” She hugs me tight. I’m fractured by an [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. Wilfred sat up four stories high on scaffolding with his legs dangling over the side and watched the storm blast across the landscape. He was a mile inland, but could see the water, white and treacherous as [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. His friends called him Crock. He smoked pot constantly and his last name was Crocker, so it stuck. Crock and Daphne had been living together for close on six years now. His mother had scolded him over [...]

This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. The sun blazed up bloody Mary red and sucked its way back down at the end of the day in the same violent hue. Pearl watched it every day and imagined she lived on Mars. She resided [...]