“Who was to say that every human delivering an octopus wouldn’t get a little bit ecstatic?”
— “Chameleons,” Cold Mountain Review
“My mother knows her way around a ghost.”
— “Woman at the Edge of Town,” Tiny Donkey
“We took Emmaline on what promised to be a particularly stormy night. It wasn’t hard to
do, especially since all the police and alarm company people were right there in the mob with us.”
— “The Feast,” Carve Magazine
“The hyena arrived with the moon.”
— “Hyena, Hyena,” Jersey Devil Press
“In Grandma’s neighborhood, there’s an old man who believes he’s a butterfly.”
— “Fried Roses for Dinner,” Apeiron Review
“There’s an animal outside my window. It’s looking at me.”
— “Pulling Out,” Split Lip Magazine
“Her sister Paula had all her life been a devotee of William Blake, and Nikki knew there was no hope of reconciling things with her because of it.”
— “A State of Dismal Woe,” Zone 3
All feature photographs belong to K.C. Mead-Brewer*
