Dina & Darlene Tunnel Have an Intuition, See an Apparition

Dina & Darlene are dozing on and off.

Dina says, “I was writing the eulogy for River Phoenix’s funeral in my head.”

“Weird,” Darlene says. “Go back to sleep.”

And then, River Phoenix appears.

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by Katie Jean Shinkle

Katie Jean Shinkle is the author of four novellas and six chapbooks, most recently “None of This is an Invitation” (with Jessica Alexander, Astrophil Press, forthcoming) and “Will You Kiss Me Goodnight?” (The Offending Adam, 2021). Recent work has been featured in Fugue, Sou'wester, Always Crashing, NELLE, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 Lambda poetry fellow, co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM, and teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing program at Sam Houston State University.