July 2026

Dogs do it. My cat did it too. I am human, civilized, fully clothed, and vaccinated. I can do it. It was my mantra as a kid. Toilets always fascinated me. As a child, I was mostly afraid of the flushing noise, I ran away before my mother could flush it for me. During the […]

“Eww, I don’t want that one!” The kid looked at the wonky head, half deflated giraffe. “I still have the pink dog.” The clown tried to hand it over to the kid. “I’m a boy! Don’t you see? I have short hair.” The boy with a superhero T-shirt was flustered to see only a pink […]

It was easy, for every two kibble she ate, I could have one. At first, it did not seem fair, I know, but I was just starting, I had to learn the craft, and she was willing to teach me. Another reason is that I am smaller than her, I don’t need as much as […]

My hands trembled, the drink spilling sideways while I tried to find her. The spritz wasn’t cute, the orange slice sunk below the ice. She took it from my hand and smiled, but I knew she would not go home with me. She pretended to have a phone call, she had the calculator open, looked […]

The excavators arrived lifting dust. The scream of men organizing labor. Nobody told them anything. Not even a sign of their turtle god. The bucket buried its metal claws in the soil and threw it in the largest part of the stream, a pond under an old bridge. The order was simple, fill half of […]