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Yellow Pajamas by Derek Lance Furr

The last time I saw my grandfather, about three weeks before cancer finished the remnants of his visceral organs, he was in pajamas—yellow pajamas, cotton, with marigold trim. My grandmother was there, too, in the shadows behind him ...more

Two Birds by Jim Dameron

A crow made me flinch. I ducked my head, hunched my shoulders, lost the easy grace of riding my bike and swerved a little. My heart raced, and for just a moment I was confused. In another second my muscles would push me to flee, but in that first instant I felt exposed, as if I had forgotten some primordial lesson •

Hitting Harmony by Nathan Ihara

I am now twenty-three and all I can think about is how that's the same age Harmony Korine was when I wrote E-N-V-Y on my fist and socked him in the head. I was eighteen when I did it, and more obsessed with Harmony than I've been with any director, rapper, writer ...more

Blue Window by Liesl Schwabe

The room itself was nothing spectacular. The concrete floor, cold and slippery, made even the taboo of wearing shoes indoors a necessity in January. There was a basic attached bathroom; a squatty toilet, a sink, a round flat shower head that turned the whole room into the shower •