Kristina Marie Darling

Upstream From Subject-Object: Introductory Notes Toward a Dao of Writing ...

A girl says, sweetly, it’s time you begin to look after me, so I may seem loveable […]

I can’t say if you’ve ever heard your own voice come over the radio, but I will […]

When all the other trees are bare the red tree grows. The fire of a thousand parrots […]

Afterwards, I looked it up. Those icy stars are pecked pearls, numbered. A story with six sides, […]

Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how […]

configured like stamens on a dahlia and she’s somewhere else with someone else, smelling good, sipping milkshakes, […]

It was like the young architect sitting by the sea in her Barcelona chair and looking out […]

An echo in the handset when I call bristles like fur on a tomcat’s paunch, a thistle’s […]

Before we knew each other, blue oat grass grew all around us, filling with soft spears the […]

The shadows grow deep enough to wash my hands in them in this last garden where the […]

It was like riding the bus to the airport on your way to fly home and catching […]