The Warbler

by Sarah Beth Durst

baleful

“You’re what I think about when I wake up in the morning and when I fall asleep at night,” Mark said. “You’re the one I want to share things with. Not just cheese and bread, but everything! Everything I see, everything I hear, everything I think. I want to share my life with you.”

if it holds answers. Maybe it’s

The Edible Woman

“That’s how the curse wins,” I say. “Expectations cage us. What other people expect. What we think they expect. What we expect of ourselves. The rules that we think are unbreakable.”