1. Kira made Dutch a mix tape with only one song, dubbed over and over and over again. It was an act of aggression. If…
The neighbors are strange and prefer privacy to brotherhood. They keep to themselves. They sleep odd hours and complain to the police when I play…
I desire differently now. Hard to tour bodies or buildings. Perhaps I will spin like a whirligig, feel body lag a second behind my tight-wound…
Quarter to twelve and peanut butter and duck feathers sully the couch. The girl cries in waves, swells rolling four long hours and counting. I…
I avoid you like a house with no coffee. There is no dancing, only horses, only Eskimo kisses on sun stained noses, only my ten-gallon…
Sunset, and we are waving at a yacht full of loud, beautifully dressed people. The fog has moved in with a certain presence and siditiness,…
As Steven remembers, it was a quiet winter drive to Pearland return- ing his stepfather Richard’s natural children, Ricky, Kathleen and Susan, to their natural…
The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded in 1986, just 73 seconds after blast off. Christa McAuliffe, the first member of the Teacher in Space Project, and…
Near the end of the summer, some years ago, when I was still a young man, during harvest time, the beginning of harvest time, actually,…
I used to go to a Girl Scout camp that allowed boys. They were perhaps the maintenance crew, or locals, or lifeguards that lived in…