The consensus of the women in Mrs. Proppe’s kitchen was that the Ragman was 90. Mrs. Torto thought 100 because in the bible, what, don’t…
She lived in a neighborhood on a numbered street in a concrete block home on a quarter acre of land. It wasn’t anything like the…
Tease, he smiled. His hands trembled when he clutched her shoulders. His nose began to run and he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket. I…
On the television, the weather man’s arms sweep down like skinny birds, his fingers pressed together, following the conch-like motion of the wind. The winds…
Outside the city there are lumberyards and there are ravines, men playing soccer, freeway passes and bridges, then the plains, and at one point, a…
A few good-hearted people, mostly women, imported tons of topsoil to the beach on Midway Island in an effort to prevent it from eroding, to…
The Laysan albatross will spend nearly half its life at sea. This amounts to almost twenty years spent adrift, and though we might follow its…
The chubby X inside hates to bleed, the skinny one loves it. She gets an A-line haircut, sleeps 8-15 minutes in a tanning bed, buys…
The first slumber party in Angie Bushnell’s unfinished basement I’m light as a feather, afraid I am too fat but stiff as a board, light…
A person can easily forget how big seagulls really are. –Mary Ruefle The same is true for all the living. Once, on a jungle hike,…