In Rare Cases & Other Unfortunate CircumstancesDivided into four parts: (Siblings, Lovers, Parents and Mourners) these stories take us on a journey through the formative stages Alien Buddha, 2023
Coleman Bigelow
Maplewood, NJ, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (8 publications)
ShotsTiny flecks of gold swam inside twenty-one celebratory shot glasses and she drank them down one by one. A country song came on and everyone in the bar started to sing along. Cinnamon tingled and burned inside Meg’s mouth. “Only fourteen more to go,”
Flash fiction
VestigialI appreciate you seeing me on such short notice. You came highly recommended. It’s just … well, you won’t believe what’s happened. I almost didn’t believe it myself until she popped out. I call her Calvia—because she came from my calf muscle.
flash
experimental
humor
mythology
surreal
In Rare Cases...You’re joking, I say, interrupting the steady bumping of the doctor’s bushy white mustache. A mustache that matches his lab coat. And you, my invincible wife, you put your hand to your chest. To the place he’s showing us on the X-ray.
Fiction
flash
grief
mourning
loss
Do Not AssociateThe tests, which seemed an exciting next step in their relationship, now appeared to mark
their final chapter as a couple. The likelihood of their children being born with a terminal disease tripled by a shared mutation in their DNA.
Fiction
flash
relationships
genetics