The café is an overflow where mats can be put down as early as 9 PM; I step around and over bodies to get into…
The Walgreen’s will close soon. The cashier has made the announcement, and Alex waits for the lights of the store to flicker. She wonders whether…
I made a joke the other day: my dog is socialist because she likes to meet new people. Actually, I have no idea of her…
When the truck arrives, only one person should be out there to greet it. More than one person, and directions for backing up get muddled…
The corn was ready for harvest when the boy got that guitar he’d been saving for. It wasn’t anything pretty, used with a little hole…
There have been days of mountains and byways, of corn and conifer, and tonight we stumble into Ohio half-drunk on petrol. These roads are clean…
Veronica was scheduled to fly home the next morning but slept through her alarm. She wasn’t ready to leave Wilmington anyway, scared to fly over…
I have impossible memories. Creation. My brother cleaving a snake in the bedroom. I remember both, though I slept. The bedroom is on the second…