Archer and Max lived next door to Kiki. She was five; Archer was six and Max, four. The three were inseparable in the quicksand way of all childhood friendships: shifting, enveloping, and vanishing. Behind their houses sat a graveyard. Stone markers puckered the earth like ant hills. Through the slats of the fence, Kiki and […]
Bethany Tap
Bethany Tap received her MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Sleet Magazine, Chautauqua, Flash Fiction Magazine, ballast, The MacGuffin, and Emerge Literary Journal, among others. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with her wife and four kids.