A break with reality was what they said I had when I told them I encountered Jesus on the Sea of Galilee. Earlier that day I had been...

The stranger appeared in the doorway drawing on a pipe. Between his fingers on the stem, I see the Dunhill dot, and on one raised pinkie,...

Ashley was the prettiest girl in my first grade class. She had shiny, chestnut blonde hair - a shade bestowed upon her directly by the...

Everything you need to know about women, you can learn by rolling a cigarette. But I don’t know how to roll a cigarette. You also know...

You’ve just stepped out of the movie theater into the humidity of a late August day. You weren’t particularly moved by the flick,...

It was Nat’s first time being anywhere between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. Humid salinity. Drink bar. Squishy mucky sand. Hippy...

The sun and I yawn, the time of day when light spreads like a pesticide. Leaves you drowsy in the poppies like Dorothy, limp as a noodle....

That day he threw us out my mother and me. Very few people know this. Not my older sister, not my older brother. That day, he packed up...

When she looked at that jacaranda she did not see what they saw. She did not see it’s lush, creamy periwinkle petals that floated in the...

The child lay on her stomach, elbows supporting her upper body, legs bent at the knees, bare feet in the air. She rested half in, half...

What did I do to make you not want me? Was it something I said? Something I did? Did my body change, or was it yours? Do you see me...

You want to scream as you feel his gold ring which matches yours pressing down which you notice as an afterthought and you don’t scream...