Abu Issam was smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk under the awning of his bakery. “This damn rain. It’s keeping the customers away,” he...

An opaque, burgundy fluid pools beneath the refrigerator door. Its viscosity obscured by the cheap fluorescents lighting the kitchen...

Everything is fine as it appears on the surface. You are engaged, your home is furnished you look better than you’ve ever looked. But...

Your mother to your father, “She lets boys touch her, but not us.” How can you explain? At 15 making your mother jealous is farthest from...

“So, I was thinking, what if people who are cremated go to one part of heaven and people who aren’t, go to another?” I say. Everyone...

Payments, payments, complaints and insurance. Decisions, decisions, yes/no/maybe, scale of preference. God, parents, manager, director,...

The lake smelled brackish, like it was trying to be something it was not. Tessa sat on the edge of the dock and dipped her feet in. Forty...

My grandfather was known as a straight shooter - even with me, his only granddaughter. He taught me venison was Santa's reindeer;...

Clothes need something to cling to, a plump curve to give them shape. They need happy meat to help them hang so that you can be sure...

It is too early for me to be sitting at the bar when I see your name written on the wall. The sun is still out and I might consider this...

I’m born Norwegian, a new American, and soon to become an Israeli citizen, too. Who needs three passports when many people in the world...

A stop I never wanted Turn back the Chungking Express Turn back these Ashes of Time Turn back the Nanking Treaty Lin Heung Tea House lost...