There is a loud knock at the door that arouses me from my catnap. A slow-to-progress labour
and eventual call for a cesarean delivery had rendered my night insomniac. I'd assisted …

This is where it begins This is where the needle goes in licks and stings...

On I-95, just outside Providence, driving home from her work at a freight-forwarding outfit, a
woman noticed she couldn't lift her foot from the accelerator. It wasn't that her rubber sole …

METAMORPHOSIS he pounds the earth with his wing I'ma carrier pigeon he says I'ma
carrier pigeon he repeats louder does he want to scare me or what luckily I have a fresh bun …

in the animal world, change is predictable--snakes shed their skins and hermit crabs ditch
one shell for another. But for Barbara Drayer, Chopin Rabin, and Kathleen Maignan …

According to the calendar, my gestation was nearly complete. My gait was heavy and
swinging as we picked among the stones crackling with morning frost and lichen in the …

I felt caught behind its seams its zippers and buttons my movements were unnatural my walk
the way I sat the way I thought and felt suddenly became self-conscious my body became a …

Suspended between two thin sheets of plastic are dozens of tiny toy fish, all them wobbling
in neon pink gel." Can you wiggle your toes for me?" The gel is cold against my bare legs …

There was a man who shape-shifted into a wolf to go hunting one night. There was a woman
who changed into a man. There was a talking sultana that changed into a box of a very …

Abstract ARTWORK© HOMEYRA KHOSH SUMMER 2020 SUFI 21 wade out up to our
necks into the traitor ocean remember we are ducks dive under-if only we trusted …