I. Notice how even the ringmaster, dazzling in his sequined ensemble, is unsure of his talent: the whip firmly in hand, the frantic pacing in…
The most vile and hideous beings gathered at midnight in a clearing near the tomb of an ancient war criminal. Mugs of mead spilled down…
He tells me I wouldn’t survive on the East Side. He tells me I wouldn’t survive on the West Side. He’s talking about Detroit. I…
The slant of this roof makes it damn hard to hold I’m hot and hungry and tired and if the human body is made of…
I am typing fatalities as if it were dry cleaning instructions. I don’t feel bad for them: 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver….
“May I help you?” “Yes,” the Dalai Lama yelled into the intercom, “give me a medium hazelnut coffee with extra cream and three Splendas.” “Would…
I watched Dr. Phil yesterday. Everything he said was so right. So true. I was humbled in his presence. I took green beans out of…
You were crying. You were excited. Very. I wished there was some way to TiVo your emotion and play it later at a time when…
She saw me pointing at a bird. “My fingernails are sweating,” I said. It was my turn to close my eyes.” That’s not possible,” she…
The man across from me on the train is moaning. He has a pain in his stomach, he says. “I have a pain in my…