Peter Kazon

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Eliza I. Gilbert |Christine Imperial |Peter Kazon

After the fire it rains dandelions and we wear the fall like coats of paint on some small immortal toolshed. The game is this: You are a snake charmer. I am a pine cone. No tag-backs. Our father knows Latin but forgets that a burnt tongue is a temporary death sentence. So we stay outside. In the game.

Mar 1, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Emily Elaine Doyle |Christine Imperial |Peter Kazon

Emily Doyle’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares (spring 2024), The Sun (winter 2023), Epiphany (winter 2023), and elsewhere. Doyle was a finalist in the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest and for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Bread Loaf–Rona Jaffe Foundation Participation Scholarship and the Abraham Lincoln Polonsky Endowed Award.

Feb 29, 2024 | kenyonreview.org | Lauren Davis |Peter Kazon |Drew Zeiba

“I’m hearing voices,” Mr. Engels said. He’d written a prompt on the board. Do you want to be famous? Why or why not? Why is fame so compelling? Kids were still talking. I sat at his desk in the back of the room, taking notes. It was my first day observing his class. I’d forgotten to wear deodorant. “Maybe you’re hallucinating,” a student called out. His hood was pulled up. In eyeliner, he’d drawn two little tears leaking onto his right cheek. “Are we in your head?”I began to sweat.

Jul 21, 2023 | bostonreview.net | Peter Kazon

I met Declan the same night I met Karen. I’d gotten lost on the way to my boss’s house, arriving a half hour late. Dogs barked hysterically when I rang the doorbell and I heard them sliding across the floor. Richard looked annoyed when he answered the door and directed me toward a gate at the side of the house. A handmade sign with an arrow pointing around the corner was tacked to the fence. “Don’t ring the bell,” it said. “The dogs will go crazy.”“Hey,” he said, looking over at me.