It’s time to go home. Not because I want to, but because Susie’s family is ready for their dinner. I put on my snowsuit and wrap the...

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...

Gravity is formidable. Apples fall, roll and stop. Deer and squirrels have no clue about Newton’s first law but are thrilled all the...

1. I tell my mother the truth she looks me in the eye with hers soft, tearful. My mother sees me through a haze of what I imagine is love...

His room was bare. Stark white walls, an old-fashioned simple dresser, a bed. My favorite part was his closet. Carefully hung dress...

We began and ended with city benches, One in the heat of summer, where jackets took up space in forgotten about closets. It was easy and...

into my small studio. you scan the room. you make sure you haven’t forgotten anything: key, wallet, phone you shyly discard the condom...

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...

The truth is I’m so lonely, And the bells on the church ring Like a telephone, And I walk the tin can wire between days, And smell the...

We build our Eden—plank by plank, stone by stone—plotting, designing, hammering, lifting, digging, and planting our private, peaceful...