Stealing Apples from the Giant’s Garden

by R.G. Evans

Originally published on July 1, 2010

All the children in this story are dead. Forgive them: they won’t know it until they are your age now or older. They tell each other tales about the giant, dare each other to touch his apple trees, to fill their pockets with the sour fruit that softens and browns in piles upon the ground, [...]

More Life

by R.G. Evans

Originally published on January 3, 2002

Whatever fire burns us first, they teach us the word No, but on our own we learn the sweet word More. We cuddle with the fatty breast of excess, shun moderation, its skeletal cousin the scold. Food comes first and lasts the longest even when lust crashes through like a lineman. More cake, more kisses, [...]

Between Storms

by R.G. Evans

Originally published on February 1, 2001

All stills in the crush of swollen air. Tendrils and leaves pull green secrets into themselves. Things have found the lowest places and rest there waiting still. The storm drain knows, thatch-choked by clipped brown grass. All along this baked tar road heat-blown tires lie in strips as colorful and layered as the plumes of [...]