Monthly Archives: May 2013
Twenty-Seventh Floor
The stories of this building rise. Each floor – a broken promise to herself. The neighborhood she never left. The better jobs she never took. The good man she never found. The children she never had. She’s hanging from the fire escape on the twenty-seventh floor – and […]
A Burial
The city lights and winding roads, the bathtubs and harmonicas, the time he shaved her legs. She wrote it off so painfully, striking hard against each key. It’s all ink on paper now, set inside a box. She’s pulling up the floorboards, nails separate from flesh, blistered fingers bleed. She brought him […]
Assembly
Did they warn you about me? he asks, wearily. And suddenly I am ill with empathy. In his tired eyes, I see my own mistakes. My own fuck-ups and follies. My own sinister ghosts, my own misgivings. My own readiness to be someone else. To be fair, I tell […]
Heather Minette 
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