They exploded, the oven contracting with that strange pop-whoosh of detonation. You’re supposed to pierce the skin first, force a knife or skewer through the skull-thick husk. Breathing holes for living things. We didn’t know, panic-threw the tray into the sink to cool the bursting fruit. The flesh was grooved like tiny cerebra or large […]
Alyson Miller
Alyson Miller teaches writing and literature at Deakin University in Australia. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in both national and international publications, and she has written three collections of prose poetry: Dream Animals (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), Pika-Don (Mountains Brown Press, 2018), and Strange Creatures (Recent Work Press, 2019).