Marianne pulled off the duvet, surprised the girl’s heady scent of lavender remained in her husband’s bed. She had prepared herself for...

When I was seven, my mother took me to the grand opening of the Piggly Wiggly, the first grocery store in our town with automatic sliding...

She flew to Montreal to end it in person. After all that they had been through with her baby and his wife’s, she knew that it had to...

“Your breathing gets all weird when you lie,” Jay said, turning the length of his body around and squinting at me. We were sitting side...

It’s the feeling of blood filling up your stomach. Or, what you think that would feel like. Warmth gushing up and up until it’s on your...

Marleigh had fruit punch blood and all the boys wanted a sip. She said she would sell them used tampons starting on the seventeenth, and...

One month after the breakup, Julia decided to make an account on a dating app despite what happened with her boyfriend. Well,...

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street. Long messages, loving ones in bright enough of a shade that the men to whom...

When everyone began shopping online, Alice found herself doing it a lot. The hours she wasted this way—not buying but browsing, clicking...

We could have stopped it, if the populations of all countries had taken the vaccines just as soon as they were available. We knew better....

I was telling Cara, my boss, about a recurring work nightmare. ‘People kept coming in, and they were yelling at me, but I didn’t know...

I washed my bed sheets today. They were more or less clean, but my blanket was sullied from love-making the night before. Or maybe it was...