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...
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...
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 spel...
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 hal...
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 lock...
