"Tiger Lady" – Fiction – 2005
Some days, as she grasps the steel handrail to board the bus, I remember the first time I noticed her scars—the jagged, pale parallel stripes on both her obsidian cheeks. I distinctly recall the metallic taste of autonomic empathy, as I moved my tongue around my mouth in search for dirty nickels, loosened teeth or [...]
"Iris & Oraserrata" – Short Story Fiction – 2005
To experiment, I spend two weeks in bed practicing stillness. I allow myself to move twice each day: twenty minutes in the morning to floss and stretch my knees; twenty minutes in the late afternoon for an exchange of fluids in the form of a trip to the bathroom and a low calorie, vitamin-fortified meal [...]
"The Truth Factory" – Palimpsest – 2005
He loves sexual innuendos and risqué conversation. He never ties his shoes. He hates smiling for cameras. He never, ever pays retail. His multicultural tongue speaks with several accents and languages. He subsists on the diet of a poor sorority girl experimenting with vegetarianism. He lives in a world of magic and make-believe. I first [...]
