July 1, 2011
Wolf
When the dogs first came crashing through the fence, Melly didn’t even try to stop them. She laughed, at first, to see them—their humped backs like whales, their gritted teeth—because […]
July 1, 2011
Love Drugstore
The Alone Thing April 10, 1998 I saw Benny, owner of People of the Book, at the one-year memorial he’d organized for Allen Ginsberg. He invited me to his […]
July 1, 2011
American Boy
I’ve always had a fascination with circuses, perhaps because I traveled for the first decade of my life with parents who were trapeze artists, one town to another as shows […]
July 1, 2011
Forcing Bowl
They bring him home and stare. Their quiet house. Though he says nothing, hardly cries, they are deafened. When he nurses, he twists his head wildly, latches on off-center. He […]
July 1, 2011
Esther Donnaly
Esther Donnaly was not an actress, had never been in a play or auditioned for one, or been a fan of movies or a follower of actresses, like many American […]
April 1, 2011
Mother’s Day
Carolina Severn, arts administrator, wife to a successful physician and the mother of two grown children, fixture in the city’s cultural life, giver of sparkling dinner parties, left her office […]
April 1, 2011
Following Slowly
It was a bright night, and the moon was shining on the snow, so it wasn’t hard to find her. He crossed the frozen creek and walked down to a […]
April 1, 2011
An Excursion
My grandmother on my mother’s side died suddenly at our dacha outside Moscow when I was little. My mother and I were left alone in the world, except for a […]
April 1, 2011
War Wounds
Anoja hoped the phone would not ring that Wednesday evening as it had every Wednesday for the past two years. She would have to lie to her husband again. She […]
April 1, 2011
How to Die Young in a Nebraska Winter
—for J.C.M. Waking to the sound of my parents dressing across the hall, I listened to the procedures in the dark with the door cracked open. It was early morning. […]
April 1, 2011
Animalcula: A Young Scientist’s Guide to New Creatures
i. Eldritii. Kesseliii. Principles of Observationiv. Halifitev. Kirklinvi. Role of Creativity in Sciencevii. Ernothviii. Lasarix. Fear of Errorx. Paglumxi. Adornusxii. Perigite The Eldrit When observed, the eldrit changes. Once its […]
April 1, 2011
Solitude City
Alaska Laura Moon is dreaming about horses when a phone call wakes her. It is her father’s voice, but he’s speaking Korean, a language she hasn’t heard in years. The […]