Relationships
Jack was asleep in the backseat, so I parked the car and ate my lunch. The playground was vacant but the lot was full of…
If you want to know the truth, this is my second unbreakable 25-cent comb from Lee’s Barber Shop. The combs are kept on a cardboard…
I am typing fatalities as if it were dry cleaning instructions. I don’t feel bad for them: 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver….
You were crying. You were excited. Very. I wished there was some way to TiVo your emotion and play it later at a time when…
I got drunk and googled you tonight, not expecting to find much. Maybe a comment on an abandoned message board. Something obscure. I don’t know…
It had ended rather simply, at Joe Junior’s, over cheeseburgers in the window booth. He said, “Tell me to stay.” She said, “I can’t tell…
Her father asked if I drank. I lied and said no. I could tell he still didn’t like me much. But she liked the fact…
The whole night he’d described himself as “exactly regular,” but at dinner, David’s hands started glowing. A sultry orange. “Well, that’s extraordinary!” I said. “Fool,”…
I told Scheff, “We’re not going away.” I had James with me, in the stroller, whimpering because his daddy scared him. Scheff was a loud,…
The snow sifted down Halloween night. The cars in the lot below became frosted cakes. We had booted around a hacky-sack all summer and into…