Adage
Bethany was the older cat. Dominic was the younger. They did not call themselves these names. Cats, as you know, have several names, those they call themselves, those they are […]
Category Archives: animals
Acuminate
The creatures were hideous. Their pale skin was almost translucent, and below its surface pulsated blue veins that lolled like worms in the salmagundi of their crude muscles. They were […]
Aculeate
What blinding rage would overwhelm me were I not equipped with this aculeus. In temperament a dust storm just beneath the surface, I feel my skin elided from within, husked, […]
Acuity
Two pigeons perched on the telephone rope strung over the canyon between two telephone poles chipped and weathered and the color of pale sand. In the canyon the man opened […]
Actual
We have an endearing habit, us humans, of ascribing phenomena to outlandish causes. It is our creative instincts that get the better of us, that send our minds whirling with […]
Pierce Nahigyan 