Aimee Bender writes, “If a sentence has an emotional impact, which of course it does all the time, it does so in large part because of its placement against other sentences, and because of how, almost musically, the emotion will land on a paragraph or scene or moment or white space or word.”
Author: Marcelle Heath
I am a fiction writer and freelance editor. My work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, matchbook, Nanoism, Necessary Fiction, PANK, Pear Noir!, Storychord, Wigleaf, and other journals
She spread her legs and flew away*
His unconscious sister on the floor, an emaciated mutt giving him the eye, and discreet piles of shit everywhere. Time to save the dog.
* title of Crooked Fingers song
Learning to fly
It is widely believed that angels have no skin, and the hearts of robots are twice the size of dogs. All improbable outcomes have occurred, and though it is very cold, so cold our skin falls off in sheets, our hearts alight in the dark.
