Magenta Crocodile's published ficlets

  • Kashmir Earthquake, 2005

    Underneath our heels and the tiny bones of our feet, the bones of the earth heave and scream as a horse strains against a he…

  • Tide Paths

    Don’t speak to me of your wavy hair fluffed in frayed yarn crests or your black polka dot purse with heavy buckles fit to st…

  • Succulent

    The succulent on my window ledge fades into a slow death, not for lack of water or sun, but something buried too deep for wit…

  • Basalt

    The cliffs cragged and scowling, the ragged stones that line the river’s banks scummed with algae. The mammoth rock sproutin…

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