Screamin’ Jay Hawkins passed on five years ago this month. He died in Paris at age seventy of complications from surgery. I saw the obituary in the local paper, read [...]
Issue: February 2008
Sagasu’s Life
Sagasu was watching the child in the corner. The corner was dark, and the child was dark. Its mouth was open, always.
Sagasu was grinding butterfly’s wings. He was mixing them [...]
Avenue and Pleasure
Avenue and pleasure, Joe’s Scrabble words, hovered above the board. I was curious about the first one and blushed at the second one. Joe got mad his tiles wouldn’t stay [...]
Rituals of Grief
They wrap the body in a cloth woven out of horsehair. White lizards adorn the stark black wrappings.
From where she sits, the widow can hear the old priest chanting as [...]