When We Were Small

Once a neighbor teen strung me up, noosed rope from a tire swing around my shoulder and tightened, me a small fry girl a human tire swing.

To Pieces

When the man who is large takes your hand you must go, your mother at your back like a shovel. Scuffing your shoes, you gain balance and enter The Mouth, as you consider it…

Pigsglue

Maddy Procter stood in the boys’ bathroom. Nobody pulled their pants down.

Oranges

He had a chance to open the cellar when his grandmam wasn’t watching.