How I envy his cropped wash-and-wear hair he can shake dry like a dog, his easy uniform of T-shirt and baggy shorts. […]
Monday Night LUST: “Basketball Coach” by Terry Godbey
Every Craving Finds Its Match
I cup your four flavors in my mouth: bitter, sweet, salty, sour. The tastes are male and female: the miracles of a girl’s first blood, her first lover’s sweat. The various […]
WRATH: How to Mind Your Monks and Scold Your Dog
Originally posted on Lisa Lanser Rose:
Mick at four-and-a-half months Today I’m going to brave the taboo topic of getting angry at your dog. Nowadays, if you so much as breathe a…
Thriftshop Your Way to High Moral Ground with the Seven Deadly Sins
by Ann Rosenquist Fee I’ll say this first and I’ll be really clear about it. I have no problem with virtue. In regular life I’m virtuous as a routine and I appreciate […]
Bad Girls
By Terry Godbey Waiting outside the liquor store, we beg young GIs to buy us wine, working them over with candy smiles and hip-huggers so tight they’d unzip if we sneezed. “Be […]
July: Seven Deadly Sins
Throughout July, the Sirens celebrate (and bemoan) the 7 deadly sins via essays, poems, fiction, and visual art. Lust, envy, greed, pride, wrath, sloth, and gluttony–we’ve got you covered. No judgment. Stay […]
The Gloria Sirens 