Since Lisa’s breakout role in Addicted Nerve, her agent emailed her with an increasing number of auditions, though she chose not to put herself forward for any of them. Instead she suffocated in long hours of idleness, chugging energy drinks and online shopping as the money in her bank account dwindled. Her days bled into […]

The car is an old beater that Lee inherited from his father. It rattles and shakes as he navigates the pitted back country roads. Kansas’s “Carry On Wayward Son” blasts from the radio. Classic rock. Another thing Lee inherited from his father. He wonders how he got to this banal place in his life. The […]

Jimmy all alone in the October cold. Jimmy out late, walking too-wide streets, looking through windows, watching men and aching for them. Smoking cigarettes to smell like them. Jimmy stuck inside a skinny kid body, a half ton of hunger crammed into a hundred and twenty pounds. Jimmy dreams of becoming Jim. Jimmy hates Jimmy. […]

­­­“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”—Virginia Woolf You think you know the story. A man made a monster, and that monster demanded a mate. Mad scientist meets fallen angel. That story. You might remember the lonely girl, a composite stitched from skins sliced from the many—her perfect face, rounded hips, hollow ankles, full […]