“Is there anything more exquisite than you? Anywhere more remotely close than where we are? Or any idea more intuitive than what the treasure of summer can bring?”

Isaiah Underwood, “Phases of Summer”

“I wished I could think of something other than him, but he’d nested himself so tight to the rings in my teeth I couldn’t even pull him from the words I spoke.”

Sarah Hecker, “Cherry Vanilla Cola”