selected by Damyanti Biswas

Irises

I bought flowers at the grocery store even though I didn’t mean to buy flowers at the grocery store. Fresh flowers are for afternoons when you feel shiny and...

The Emptiness Machine

You'd have thought it was a mad scientist who gave me the Emptiness Machine, but that's not true. It was a poet. I saw the poet three times before the world ...

A Little More Full and Less Empty

I let him into my flat. He puts the empty bottle of vodka on the floor and walks around, lays a hand on the wooden box on my coffee table, the box that looks li...

Sea Wolf

The inflated breast, the red and filling cheeks. Hands balled, white to the knuckle, nails cleaving palms. Face like a cork in the spout of a freshly shaken bot...