Dena Afrasiabi has recently watched the sun set between two continents in Istanbul, Turkey and visited a medieval Swedish prison that was once home to a famous cross-dressing thief with excellent culinary skills. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Enizagam, Kartika Review, Prick of the Spindle and Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University and writes and resides in Austin, Texas.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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