There are two kinds of people in the Persian community: Those that kiss you on the cheek twice, and those that you kiss you on the cheek three times.
Fiction
Family Ties
her moonlit coat was blue
Double Exposure
parenthesized by a stream of repudiation
The Person Improving Your Life
she sang, her voice now hoarse and raspy, sounding like a kitchen sink disposal
The Forest of Us
reveling in the feel of standing at the beginning of something, before it swallows me whole
Out on Canal
rat poison, rat traps, Ditrac, glue boards, Gentrol, bait stations, D-foam, peanut butter, and a small bottle of hand sanitizer