Small Animal

Sara herself did not know the people throwing the party, but she went to the house in the woods anyway. He was darkly charming. Very dark. In other words seemingly land-based, mineral in taste, slick like black mud. He carried with him a small something wrapped in a...

Coven

We chant around the grill in our backyard every Friday the 13th to scare the neighbors who told the Homeowners’ Association our violet paint job was garish. We powder newt tongue and kitten whiskers into hangover smoothies. We concoct lipstick out of rose petals and...

The Lemon Tree

A substantially revised version of this story appears in Loory’s second collection, Tales of Falling and Flying, published by Penguin Books in 2017. A farmer was wandering through his orchard at harvest time, when he saw an apple hanging from one of his lemon...