There is pulp in the lemonade. Celeste frowns; she does not like pulp. She places the cold drink on the wicker side table. It has a glass...

I see you on the train with the run in your black tights and the blob of soggy Cheerios hanging from the pocket of your over-worn...

You look at yourself in the mirror and you don’t recognize the face you see. You are happy. “Hey, it’s been a while”, you think. And you...

Juan and me are sitting on the curb on CR 253, on account of the bus-stop shelter being full of people. I ball my exhaustion into my fist...

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...