Travel
“I don’t snorkel,” he said. “I don’t surf.” Lucinda canceled their Hawaii trip and booked them a Winter Solstice tour of Scandinavia. On the plane,…
Not the regular kind, but Do-It-Yourself. Out in the middle of Utah or Nevada, somewhere hot and brown and desolate. So dry the water felt…
First came Dublin, porter and rain, longshoremen and short-arsed chancers. Everyone drunk and not giving a damn—feckless, they called it—a breath away from losing grip….
My grandmother turned up alone and broke in New York because of two dead Prussians. Their names were Werner and Petra Rathskeller and they just…
I am escorting an old Ukrainian to Ukraine. She does not trust me. I cannot speak to her. I arrange to stop over in Grand…
My friend B, visiting from Minnesota, had no idea that the Indian nights could be this dark. The bus leaves us under a tall tree…
“Just pop it in the cooler, there. How is that so hard,” he says. “Just throw the damn thing in there.” My sister and I…
The man across from me on the train is moaning. He has a pain in his stomach, he says. “I have a pain in my…
At my gate I am in a staring mood and am therefore pleased to sit next to a transsexual. I know this is true because…
You found me that first night in the bar across the plaza from Teatro Juárez. You talked. I drank wine, watched the fútbol and the…