shortform fiction

The Last Cowpunk

“Late Jones County days she wore her old-world trappings, found herself taking small comforts in the dress of the American Communist Experiment, the terrestrial proof of a concept so stellar it became, of all things, interstellar.” Left behind on a poisoned Earth by a lofty vanguard, Glenda and her husband Kwame struggle to maintain an ailing herd of synthetic livestock while dreaming of a utopia that never was.

The Last Cowpunk was published in Soft Punk in 2020 (Issue 2 - Reasonable Doubt).

Image courtesy of Sofie Praestgaard, Soft Punk’s Art Director.

Clash by Night

“Sometimes, during the late chill month of December, she would awaken from certain dreams to a lower-level agony…” Forced to flee from her motherland and abandoned by the only woman she ever loved, a former revolutionary searches for some semblance of meaning in a bourgeois world that seems devoted to crushing her political spirit.

Clash by Night was originally published in Bowdoin University’s Foundationalist journal in 2018 (Volume I, Issue I).

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Me, I Have Nightmares

“I have long, thick, dark, heavy, beautiful hair. Handfuls of the stuff.” Late at night, drunk on sweet cheap wine, and surrounded by those that say they love you, it’s easy to be honest. Maybe too easy. What happens when the truth is too horrifying for those around you to believe?

Me, I Have Nightmares was originally published in the Yale Literary Magazine in 2018 (Volume 31, Issue I).