He says, You think too much and he grins a grin that has all of the attic keys on a wrought iron ring, on a chain.

The scaffolding had been difficult to construct. The rock floor of the bluff offered no purchase, so he'd been forced to anchor braces to the trees behind, then span some thirty feet. A cantilevered gallows reached another fifteen feet past the stage...

The first time they were separated, he rediscovered music and writing.

when the surface of a photograph gets like this that it has gone blind

The giant hurled threats and insults. He brandished a knife that was a foot long.

you were very very small, you were everso small, you were like – the tiniest creature, hopping about on one leg

It was Brad, for short; or so he would say. But really his name was Bradford, and he was a writer. He had almost always lived in New York. He was only half-white. His mother had run away with a black man in the sixties. Her father had told her to never come back to…

I won't fail at this like trying to fix a leaking sink without mud grease or washers tinier than Cheerios.

As we sat at the cafe, Darrell told me that he had to make a mushroom delivery to one of his clients in Berkeley. I never knew whether it was legal or illegal business he was on, and he made a point of not telling me, because he said it was better I didn

She stepped into a pair of high heeled slippers and began to dance. She was Salome, a witch, dancing like the most beautiful, the most skilled whores of Paris.

Last night, the station played me a dream of sexual promiscuity that included -- but was not limited to -- imaginative acts involving....

Cinnamon and smoke infuse the days that shorten, chill, accelerate.

Sometimes cats had to die or dogs

I keep my life very ordered. Order for me is security. I am sure of some things. Like the fact I work five nights a week, and sleep during the day.

that is a fair description of our family if I add the disclaimer that the girls are whores and we don’t have much in common.