Face
The woman I love comes back from the war with part of her face blown off and a surgery scheduled for Tuesday. I get drunk in a hotel room down the street from where she’ll be medevaced tomorrow, then type the words face and reconstructive
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Os Sacrum
On average, the adult human skeleton is composed of 206 bones weighing 30-40 % of the body’s total weight. Water accounts for half that figure. Desiccated, then, the skeleton weighs 15-20% of a body’s original weight at death. So if my father weighed 170
Past Sense
It begins with something sharp, a smell forced up my nose and down my throat. A vision flashes, just a snap of memory, so vivid I feel its edges: I am back in St. Louis, running my pre-adolescent fingers through freshly cut grass; in Mesa,
Ethereal Girls
I understood—instinctively, if not denotatively—the word ethereal before I stumbled across its definition during junior-year SAT prep. Ethereal: extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world. Ethereal: it’s the silver ribbon of sound that threads the air when Elise