Never Mind the Beasts

Super happy to have a new one paragraph story in Unbroken.

“Unbroken is a quarterly online journal that seeks to showcase prose poems and poetic prose, both from established and emerging voices. We desire to give the block, the paragraph, the unlineated prose, a new place to play.”

My story (or maybe it’s a prose poem) is about a lucky elephant.

Here is the opening to my story. It’s called “Elephant in the Room.”

Father was bling king. His gold necklace hung between his hard coconuts. He pulled apart cars but forgot to put them back together. The engines leaked blood in our driveways. Mother made chocolate santa sleighs and sold them to the local sensei. Plus oils to lighten the eyelids. Plus 12 children for daycare. Our home was also graced with the lucky elephant. I walked out into the world and the elephant followed me. He’s been following me ever since.

You can read the rest of the story (and all the other fab one paragraph stories/prose poems) in the new issue over here