Meg Tuite is author of four story collections and five chapbooks. She won the Twin Antlers Poetry award for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging. She teaches writing retreats and online classes hosted by Bending Genres. She is also the fiction editor of Bending Genres and associate editor at Narrative Magazine. http://megtuite.com
Fistful of fear slacks my joints with a tendency to brazen the blood. So many corners in this sweet town of four thousand ruffles call out the riff of fractured boredom. One God-given single lane of circle-rouge girls hop up on strangers and a shift to the benign. A vacant infestation of weed and unconventional fingers encompass a gnarl of… Read more →
The jowls of a man of knowledge are weighed down by a hefty lifetime of facts. He is a man of damp bitterness and answers. The verge of too much thought can wear him down to his bed midday. But don’t expect him to lie still for more than twenty minutes. There is nothing illusive about his pursuits. Every day… Read more →
An apparition bloomed in my throat when I saw him pull up in his rental car. For three years he’d lived somewhere in the Amazon. Jungle-vined legs subdivided and twisted out of the Honda. Even his bones moved like sunsets I’d never seen. This wiry, tan strangeness with eyes lit by other mountain ranges leaned his full wildness down into… Read more →