The Sarah Series

[Sarah draws little moustaches]

Smokelong Quarterly
Flash Fiction Award Finalist

Sarah draws little moustaches on her headshots on the flyers announcing her latest poetry reading. Sometimes the department finds them, takes them down, prints off more, and hangs them. 

[Sarah sits in the chair on the deck and reads]

Abraxas Review

Sarah sits in the chair on the deck and reads. Above her flit the bats. It is not yet entirely dark.

[Sarah inflated balloon after balloon]

Stickman Review

Sarah inflated balloon after balloon, and because she was so full of nothing, the balloons rose higher and higher into the air.

[Sarah has attached a bandage to her heel]

Surely Mag

Sarah has attached a bandage to her heel nineteen of the last twenty-two days. Two days she did not leave the house or put on proper walking shoes (or shower)…

[Sarah folds the dead student’s poems]
[Sarah made little dots on her arm]
[Sarah does not like not liking the girl]

Necessary Fiction

Sarah folds the dead student’s poems and carries them back to the creek the student had often written about. She holds them in her hands and then burns them and drops…

[Sarah takes her niece and nephew to the trampoline park]

Your Impossible Voice

Sarah takes her niece and nephew to the trampoline park and for thirty-six minutes mistakes another boy in a blue tee and shorts for her nephew, who suddenly appears behind her to ask for…

[Sarah is a series of sonnets]

Disquieting Muses Quarterly

Sarah is a series of sonnets in a long section of an old book she has never read. Sometimes she is broken into couplets, sometimes…

[As part of the latest interdisciplinary proposal]

Waterwheel Review

Sarah accompanies the botanist who loves most to talk about birds but is paid only to talk about the plants they eat and pollinate, though…