Jack was asleep in the backseat, so I parked the car and ate my lunch. The playground was vacant but the lot was full of…
When Miguel was just thirteen he realized that loneliness could make him do almost anything. A girl a year older than him named Gabriela with…
on a small piece from one step that’s come loose, like an unexpected fault in someone you only half-know but are about to come into…
If you want to know the truth, this is my second unbreakable 25-cent comb from Lee’s Barber Shop. The combs are kept on a cardboard…
My brother is spread across his sheets like a venereal question. I hum and kiss his eyelids. His wrists have caked all the way down…
Once a week I drove my truck to the cabin, following the river gorge. The Truckee River leaks out of Tahoe and winds north at…
At K-mart I bought boots stitched from the remains of dinosaurs. They lasted what a white person’s idea of a native would call many moons….
A red fox in a black garbage bag was my first, and then the countless possums, coons, and the squirrels—for them I just use paper…
The group of trees behind our house that I called a forest burned down when I was 12. I never told anyone that Ben and…
I couldn’t see over the dashboard when we hit it, but my father described it as a red flash sucked beneath the beam of his…