Maxine Prudhomme

How can I subtract you from sun? No shade of light would remain intact.

Chella needs to find a painting that does not exist. She saw it only once, when she was little: a sweeping tableau of bright blue mares—blue like a slap on the face.

Patience sits alone in a pew for the first time.

I dream that I am your mother instead.

Mother's face is an extinction in reverse—ancestors wake up in the cant of her nose

Whether watching for the first time or the fifitieth, members of the crowd shiver with antici...pation. Thirty trixies strut on stage and the Rocky Horror Picture Show Begins.

The witch tries to plant a world in my throat, but it won't take. It's no use when the meat is bad, she sighs.

"I will make everything right," Pinworm says. "Those were his words."

The not-girl does not know how she found her way here, only that she has been wandering a long while.