Freud has warned women about men who stutter because they are likely to be disappointing in bed. But a speech therapist from the School of…
First came Dublin, porter and rain, longshoremen and short-arsed chancers. Everyone drunk and not giving a damn—feckless, they called it—a breath away from losing grip….
Three Davids swimming under a bridge. Two Davids diving gracelessly from a buoy. One David’s thigh with a birthmark the color of a raspberry just…
They had high hopes when they built Magalíluismili, so why they built the village in the bottom of a valley was a joke we thought…
Afterward smelled like death, which smelled like morphine, which smelled like raspberry, which I’ve never liked. These artificial fruit smells—chemical esters volatile and ripe—they smell…
In her wisdom, the wifely woman strategized the social worker’s entire visit. She laid it out like a game of Risk, which the boy liked…
After his mother passed, the boy who claimed he was mine became addicted to tragedy. The wifely woman said we had no choice, but I…
Tell me again about the time when we were babies and our thoughts were music. The wooden swing set, magnolia tree, camellias big as hats….
I. You kissed Brooke Shields in a hot tub near Sausalito. It wasn’t on a houseboat, but at a rehab joint. In the ‘80s she…
The sun in September is a hammer, is a circular saw. You were using a belt sander on the Saltillo tile in the kitchen. I…