To see my parent would be to know they were working class. My father’s dungarees were so soiled my mother was unable to rid them of...

We are on a train from Tokyo to Kurama Onsen  near Kyoto. You write on the back of purple and gold  origami paper, scenery passes us by...

She misses the light that hid its existence cream and pale under the watchful eye of the waning moon that used to dance in spirals and...

Every time I think of you, I think of the show Degrassi too. In 2009, we are fourteen, and Degrassi: The Next Generation is on its...

Shut away from the magic of music, she can no longer hear the rising hymns she sang with Dean and a guitar, behind a pulpit of judgement....

The gentle light of early six o'clock morning barely whispered through the ivory drapes, casting an ethereal outline that teased my...

Josie and I always picked boys at the start of the summer, and just for that summer, they would be ours. It didn’t really matter whether...

My dentist asks: Are you brushing twice a day?   I wonder why I’m able to drive 47 minutes out of my way for a boy who doesn’t care about...

He doesn’t rotate the produce. After hauling the crates from the loading dock, he unloads new spuds onto last week’s potatoes. Unripe...

Three generations of the women in my family             sit on the spacious front porch, pouring over                         souvenirs...

I’ ve kissed at least one dead girl that I know of. I look back and realize she was maybe only barely alive when we kissed. Tawny girl,...

While my mother was still alive, we’d moved to a brand-new home in one of those strangely uniformed suburbs in South Miami. Because blue...