Kathy Fish

It rained hard all morning, and Beak's toes were numb from the pelting. He asked if she wanted to hear some jazz this evening. The waiter balanced a tray of fresh coffees, holding a menu over his...

You broke icicles from the low eaves and brandished them like swords, cut my cheek and dropped your weapon, and made to push me over the edge of a cliff, but grabbed me around my waist before I...

You broke icicles dripping from the low eaves and brandished them like swords, cut my cheek, dropped your weapon, grabbed me around my waist before I fell off a cliff, and ran away anyway,...

Ling is weary of men who rush for trains and sacrifice their briefcases to the doors. She wants to stick her pregnant belly into their noses. Six weeks after giving birth, Ling goes back to work...

The repair man dreams of cogs and band saws, electrical circuits and wires, and takes his work clothes to the Wife Saver Laundromat in the retail strip near their apartment building. Mattie reads...

The girls play in the hollow, their mother works hard and bakes olive bread and cinnamon rolls, and they walk to school. The girls are frightened because their mother looks like a crazy person, and...

Space Man, alone and out loud, presses the button to eject from his failing spacecraft and imagines his pretty girl walking toward him on a boardwalk or even on Pluto or some star, a surfboard...

Jane and Sheila wait tables at Mazzio's Italian Restaurant and are on their cigarette break out back in the alley by the dumpster. They smell of garlic and tobacco and are wearing polyester peasant...

The house is always quiet and Millicent's mother hosts her own local television show exposing products that do not work as they are supposed to. The girl wanted to bake cookies, but her mother...

Lara and I are sitting in the food court at the outlet mall, playing hooky from our jobs at Key Bank, when she tells me she has back fat. I can't respond right away because I'm working on a big wad...

Zach is fixing us fisherman's omelets and fried potatoes, and we're all in town, the siblings, for the first time in two years. Rob is already chowing down on his omelet, and I'm shaking the...

Margie and Mae are grilling, and Steve, their dog, is smelling of devilled eggs and Crazy Glue. It's my first family function without my wife. Steve wanders away and I sit at the picnic table next...