JJ Peña

my best friend chenay is afraid of heights. she swears humans only have bones just to anchor us to the ground. otherwise—we’d all float up to the sky, graveyard. that’s why she’s on her ass right now, denim shorts traveling across gravel & dirt, moving about five centimeters a minute, as we descend a windy …

according to late-night-sofa stories, when my mom & dad were getting a divorce, my dad hid all five of us kids from our mom, for two whole weeks. my mom was said to be running around with a sunburned man, getting high on moonlit drugs, & forgetting she was a mother. i was still fresh …