April 1, 2013
Hindsight
Clare and her oldest friend from college had been planning this visit for the past three months. But only yesterday, her arms full of towels and pillows, Clare realized that […]
April 1, 2013
Reception
The previous receptionist had left the Barbie doll legs there on the corner of the desk, tan vinyl calves dangling over the edge, and during the sixteen months I worked […]
April 1, 2013
Waking Luna
My cousin Luna sleeps on a Super 8 motel bed in Jersey City, in a room that overlooks the Holland Tunnel toll plaza, next to a Home Depot that makes […]
January 1, 2013
Cold Water for Blood Stains
Sidney sat at her own bedside in the dark listening to Clovis breathe. He had fallen into her duplex a little after midnight. When she’d heard the buzzer, she’d bounced […]
January 1, 2013
Do Birds Like Television?
The answer to this question is yes, but it needs qualifying: First, the qualification. Wilma, a sweet-natured woman who lives on the top floor of this building, has seven birds—two […]
January 1, 2013
Millionaire
Kunal and Lisa exit the events hall of the Mumbai Golf Club where, not an hour ago, Kunal’s cousin married a homely, friendly Indian girl. They cross the private grounds […]
January 1, 2013
Film (24/1)
From the Hungarian. (tower, dive, forward, backward, inward, reverse, straight, pike, tuck, free position, somersault, twist, armstand, starting position, approach, takeoff, flying action, entry, running restart, hands joined, toes […]
January 1, 2013
Demolition
1 The deaf man came to our church the first Sunday in Lent. A teenaged boy, wearing khaki pants and a bow tie, entered the sanctuary with him. They sat […]
October 1, 2012
Hush
When Jeffrey insisted on going to Mammoth Cave the month after his doctor at Sloan-Kettering stopped chemo, his wife Maureen joked that Jeffrey was like one of those Russians who […]
October 1, 2012
Lagon Bleu
A handsome head enters the sea of old computers. I follow it across the room, above the other clientele. Against my screen he walks, his reflection lighter than most of […]
October 1, 2012
Sexton
The year I was born water covered large portions of the earth. Unwed mothers took their babies down to the beaches at night and set them adrift amidst the endless […]
October 1, 2012
Go West, and Grow Up
We had been living in the car for the better part of a year when my mother left my father. I never thought she would have the strength, and, in […]