Childhood/family
Sara cleaned her refrigerator on Friday nights when we were freshmen in high school. Cold cuts and condiments on the kitchen counter. She loved the…
I’ve been told my father was a dangerous man, wanted in forty-nine countries. He left us when I was five. I have only two memories…
After his mother passed, the boy who claimed he was mine became addicted to tragedy. The wifely woman said we had no choice, but I…
Several bull-headed men in lab coats emerge from the labyrinth. One of them unshackles me and points to the entryway. Three bull-headed men to my…
My parents’ presences and absences become predictable. When they are not with me I decide not to pace anymore and I sit as close as…
My sister is not allowed to visit the labyrinth. I ask my parents if they are afraid she will see the labyrinth and start pacing…
I am born at the labyrinth’s entrance. My blood mixes with the dirt until there is a large dark circle. My body feels raw, scrubbed…
The children have pretty near taken this town over. No one gets the New York Times delivered to the doorstep anymore. Instead, it’s that magazine…
Though he was found not guilty, the man was deemed unfit for civilized society and sentenced to a lifetime in Wichita. “Like the Glen Campbell…
Another method by which clouds form is through the lifting of air by an advancing storm system or, more often, by the slope of a…