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Wang Wei

Up Country

Tanya jokes that she comes to the East Coast now only for funerals.

Upside

I’m in a fight for my career and the SOB won’t be there for me.

Ursula granger and i walk mulberry row during bottling season

ursula says she’s seen everyone she loves in an apple, save herself.

Us

When the population was whiter, they fawned over the Korean.

Valley

They retire for the night, he to his bedroom and she to hers. What of it?

Victoria

I’m covetous of my worldly neighbor. And he’s not accommodating.

Victoria

I drank every night until late and drew earth-shaking conclusions.

Villa Palms

Today the game was to try to catch one of the cats in a pillowcase.

Virgil Explains Limbo to Dante

Limbo: Latin, limbus, meaning a hem between sclera and cornea.

Visible Empire

“You mean to fall in love with your wife while I’m gone,” she said.

Vogel’s Wife

At the copier, her back to him, running off copies, was Penny Ayler.

Walk for Mankind

The door opened, and Dan stormed in, shouting, “Motherfuckers!”

Walking Distance

The man lifted his shirt just enough to show the handle of a pistol.

Wants

I had promised my children to end the war before they grew up.

War Widow

You smile into the phone static, the breath of your beloved.

Washed Away

The future was spread out for us to go in any direction we wanted.

Wasps

Severe knobs of head and tail: one a horn of venom, the other masked.

Water

I am subject to you in the way the water is subject to the moon.

Water Ghosts

I was only five when Dad told me I had died. “You drowned,” he said.

Watermark

Rain falls steadily, rattling down drainpipes and gurgling into gutters.

We Are What We Have Lost

Ella knew she hadn’t hurt Sebastian, but she knew she’d betrayed him.

We Did Not Have a Dog

“Wanna give it a go?” my brother asks, nudging me with his 12-gauge.

We Said Our Common Ancestor Was Eve

We fed our dreams inevitable sins, the kind you lie about till you grow mean.

Weekend

Amy put her arm around his shoulders. My boy. Isn’t he wonderful?

What Dad Said

We need to stop talking about it, we need to put some pants on.

What Danny Said

He squinted and looked off a little beyond where we were.

What We Have

It was spring: the field, a botanist’s mirage of wild flowers.

Whatever’s Left of Normal

Design a way to kill those rats, and do it now, Fiori, do it now.

When Everything Changed