by Kyle Labe
Did you honestly believe that / When you vanished into air / I wouldn’t breathe it in?
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by Kyle Labe
“Oliver thought there weren’t many standards to being a human being. His philosophy was to take a person for what makes them smile, then leave them the hell alone. People have awful lives all over, and they still manage to be good to others. He believed all you really should be is kind—that’s it.”
Categories: short story • Tags: author, experimental, feminism, feminist, fiction, gay, kylelabewriting, kylelabewriting fiction & poetry, LGBT, LGBTQ, longreads, new, short story, stories, story, writer
by Kyle Labe
“We are returning from church when the biplane crashes in our back lawn.”
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by Kyle Labe
Jailyn pierced Winnie’s ears behind her house. She was in middle school, three grades up, and worked at the mall doing this, so Winnie trusted her. They sat on the cement outside Jailyn’s screen door. It was the door you had to force open, because it always jammed. And when it ran off the track, Jailyn’s mother would holler from the kitchen. Winnie didn’t mind this, though, because she liked how Jailyn’s mom was cheery and always had the house […]
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by Kyle Labe
Published by Teen Ink Magazine. Jefferson Harper said his first harsh words to his mother when she began to tear down the photographs of his father from the walls. The newly widowed Bailey Harper insisted her late husband’s eyes followed her in the pictures when she crossed the room, and she was sick of the dead looming around when he did that enough alive. When Jefferson disinterred the frames from a cardboard box in the attic, he replaced all the […]
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by Kyle Labe
Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy. Said I came out of the womb with a full mane flowing out behind me, and if I ever get lost, just to take off my hat or headscarf and somebody’ll come magnetized over to it. When I was younger, she said I had too much of a body for a girl-child. Too curvy like the sea waves, infinite and easy to […]
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by Kyle Labe
“Sometimes it’s best not to examine someone’s intentions, and just take them for the asshole they really are.”
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by Kyle Labe
met me in the southwesteast corner of that quaint bookstore Shakespeare & Co where his spine crackled into me like London Bridge, because it’s awfully cramped back there, in that corner where they hide all their Shakespeare plays and sonnets in rare editions, I’ve always had an affinity for 104, April perfumes in hot Junes burned. I had a copy of As You Like It nestled in the crook of my left breast, and he smiled wearing a pure white […]
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