By the time the dishwater soaked through the white cloth apron all the way to my underwear and I ran out of space to stack…
I could no better articulate to the blind man what the sky looked like than to say it was blue, but not always, or how…
The boy grew frightened when his grainy wooden skin began to melt, every fiber humming and softening. Slumped on the workbench against some lumber scraps,…
I stole your extension ladder. I woke up one night and realized it would make a fine addition to my collection. So I snuck over,…
Sirens approaching The inner city portion of Boston smelled of beasts and fowl that dark and misty a.m., and through the bus window on the…
Someone in Asheville is in love with a girl named Laura. I know this because I read it. I imagine a person deep in love,…
Your mother was an abandoned, half-naked mannequin on display in a peep show window. She said she was just pretending but I knew she was…
Direct the bearer to lay the body out on the cold stone table, facing toward heaven. Unwrap the white cloth from the body. Fold it…
She was magnificent. All 3 inches of her. A Martian? I didn’t care. She’d arrived when I was suicidal. Saved my life. Daytimes, she sat…