Jack-and-Janette"At least they know my name. At least I have not pulled myself away, broken them open in the carnage of my insecurity as I escape with only grief in my palms."
Short Story
autumn
friendship
halloween
April Yu
April Yu (she/her/她) is a teen writer from New Jersey with an affinity for language, running, and human anatomy. Although she was indeed born in April, her favorite season is winter. When not typing, she moonlights as a domestic food taster.
East Brunswick, NJ, United States
Selected work (5 publications)
crickets, tell me that"your croaks already drink the air from my lungs until your survival and my death depend on each other, intertwined like the legs of orpheus and eurydice. at least leave my body behind so daisies bloom from the blades of my shoulders."
poetry
surrealism
love
nature
crickets
Before I Go"I dangle my Vans and you dangle your Converse over the New York City skyline. If I shifted my weight forward just so, I could take flight — helpless beneath the sun, the girl imprinted in gold just before she falls."
Short Story
Fiction
grief
abandonment
leaving
college
friendship
roulette"The little ball will tick-tick-tick along peeling panels in dingy light, spurning the dust of old men, breathing booze-tainted air in the few seconds it takes flight."
Fiction
micro-fiction
flash
gambling
roulette