Everybody said it was my mother threw acid on my face because I was born freak ugly from the start. But it was never her. It was one of her junkie boyfriends she had back then. The one called himself...

The suitcase handle pulls up halfway and jams. Father looks at it like he can see down into wherever it’s stuck and lurches into a moment of pointless jostling. Quinn and mother watch him hand-wrestle the object with a vacant...

Everything is breaking down and she tells him no, that she will not do what he has asked her to do. Neon sign on the side of the building lights her body through the window. The bodega on the ground...

Elizabeth felt Sakura’s absence deeply as she watched the two college girls work the counter. It wasn’t that they reminded her of the young coed now living in her house, but because by all appearances they were nothing like her...

She leaned against the sink, not looking at him.“So I was thinking…”The frosted plexiglass of the shower steamed up while the water running over his ears made everything sound like it was going under.Sometimes her voice made him think of...

Rosalia found the dog right around mid-afternoon a couple miles past the iron scorpion. The studio was in the garage stall of an old service station. The doors were open and the space was full of scrap metal and half-finished...

“Tell me you wouldn’t love to fuck her,” she said.She was soaking wet in Dogface’s pool, holding onto Stone’s knees as he sat on the edge with his feet dangling in the water. A fit, pneumatically enhanced blonde in a...