Sex and the Cyrillic

A drunk named Sergei said that St. Petersburg is a museum of sex and suffering, which at the time I thought profound, but we were…

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Yonex Buys a Bear Trap

Years ago I bought a Hungarian bear trap for my cowardly daughter. A big, steel cage: about six feet in diameter, eight feet long. She…

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An Unconscious Belief

I call him Mr. Big Shot because that’s the name he goes by. This since last December when he took the Greyhound through New Mexico…

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Perspective

They came dressed as Batman, and you were a giant corn dog. The dance floor was someone’s bedroom, the attic where people smoked up. They…

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What Bears Know

Bears know a thing or two about garbage: where to find it, how to release locks and open doors or take a dumpster in hand…

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now that you are working for the government

If you had a red blazer and a red pencil skirt, in twenty years you’d look like a first lady or that woman in The…

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My Mother is a Ghost on the Keystone Line

Between Coatesville and Paoli alerts come through my iPad and phone. They are from my mother’s account. They’re pictures I’m tagged in. They’re updates. The…

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Gettysburg

Then without further violence, green shoots break through ground, and the men arrive as usual with their metal detectors. They’ve come for bullets, war coins,…

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The Spaceman’s Wives

The first wife liked to run, very fast. Sometimes she sprinted until it made her sick to her stomach, folding over her government- issue shoes…

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