For over 20 years, Epiphany has published literature that guides readers toward unexpected revelation. Learn more about us and the writers we publish.
Use our A-Z index to explore a few themes:
Mother-Haunted
Time in dreams is slippery. Sometimes the dream seems to cover years, and in others times slows, the seconds dripping and sliding. I was half awake, stuck in dream time. I didn’t recognize her.
Heaven is a Place in West Palm Beach
I breathed through the tube and didn’t die, and finally I looked down and saw them. All these small fish streaking by, silvery and orange and pink, hermit crabs scuttling around the rocks, tufts of seagrass with tiny shrimp.
Ragged Point Inn
My mother knows nothing
more than I do but she carries it better.
If she were a metaphor I could turn into her.
Preparations
I rest my head against the doorframe and close my eyes, and I am five, and she and I are back in this room, together.
Composition of a Disappearance
The teacher’s aides make the best of it when Ms. Clark doesn’t show up on Thursday. The kids play the Quiet Game, and the violent boy loses every round.
Who We Are, Where We Go
He didn’t want to think about the future; for now he just wanted some money to treat his illness. Maybe he was less elastic than he had hoped. His thought was cut short by the old woman knocking over a glass.
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