rounds of hate in scores firedenter my body as i watcheight fall,six of them who look like me — and...

fleetingly she glimpsed by ---a backyard hummingbird fluttering,feeding her hatchlings: spiny, naked little things,blind and squirmy,perilously craning, that grew feathers...

This submission won second place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category. Child, I lay him supine upon the...