It was the summer before I went to college. Mom thought it was a good idea to get a good bill of health from the family doctor. I made an appointment with our family doctor, Dr. Jane Morgan. The check-up was uneventful. Dr. Jane has been our doctor since I was a child and she was pleased to hear about my college plans. Before I left her office she handed me an order for blood tests and a urine test. I froze. “Is there any...

There are, there aren't, and yet there are two women standing naked in a moon harboured window. Tonight, they declaim that houses are like bodies and together they will fashion a home of incandescent dreams. Their house, a dirty white bungalow with large windows sunk into the brick. They gaze at their reflections in the night window. Like Luna's daughters, they stand shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, holding their breat...

When I know you are fast asleep, and the only brightness in our bed is the honeyed-light of a rising moon, I whisper fairy tales and wishes for you to dream. My mouth hovers like a Luna moth over your perfect ear. I say, some villainous hag has put a spell on you, casting you, heart and soul into the small, soft body of a red, red fox. I run through the meadow and the forest, with my body and senses naked and raw until I...

The instant you stopped shouting at me, calling me unbearable names, reducing me to, “a cold cunt,” and, “a lesbian diva,” and, “a conniving slut.” Our faces in the half-light of the kitchen tears smearing our make up. The instant you shouted, already half way out the door, that you would never be back I was already missing you more than I thought it possible to miss anyone. I turned every light in the house off and sat i...

Long, long ago in the wilds of Scotland there lived a nobleman who had a wife named Safire, and a daughter named Ailith who had just turned nineteen and was as lovely and temperate as an April day on the glen. Of her mother Safire, named for her long locks of red hair, it was said that there was no woman in all of Scotland more beautiful. Yet, if the truth be known vanity had pierced Lady Safire’s heart and she lusted aft...