I am long of tooth, too, and when I go, maybe a box with my ashes inside will join the boxes containing the cats’ remains.

You're a good dog, she whispered to him, a good brave dog. Her face was tight with soap.

It takes almost an hour before I drift to sleep on the bus. When I wake up in Crescent City, I’m surprised. Maybe I was going somewhere else in my sleep. Walking out of the station, it feels like a strange place. Somewhere I’ve never been before. The

Kick your employer in the ass. Emotions are strange experiments in honesty.

My mother's afraid the dog will drown. It's raining and our street is flooding and the dog is standing on top of his doghouse. My mother is pregnant. I can stand beneath her stomach and not even see her face. I watch her from the kitchen window. She's shoeless. She holds…

I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue

Can’t you do anything right?

It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.

"We all knew that the thirty-eight year old mother, with the house on the hill, was having an affair with Darren, a fifteen year old boy, but no one did anything about it. When he was sixteen the parents found out and were furious, but the police were ne

He was supposed to be a garden gnome. Give pause to the squirrels, keep an eye on the impatiums. We found him at Wegman’s. He looked hopeful and observant.

During what's called "Children's time," one day at church Sarah slides her left foot halfway out of her tiny ballet slipper to show Davie her toenails are painted the same soft pink as the inside of her shoe. "Look," she says. "My…

Back in the Dark Ages, the Mongols invented the first hamburger pattie. They put slabs of beef under their horses' saddles and after a few miles of rough riding -- voila! a flattened piece of cow meat. They then proceeded t

blinking out

He hiked the hills of her condition She biked the path of his delight

The place is buzzing with little women, all clad in black smocks.