The doctors said, when she was born, that the gills would eventually fade away on their own. Nothing to fear, they said; no more unusual than the rare child born with a tail, or a dense pelt of fur, or a single sharp tooth jutting from its new pink gums.

The pool deck was covered with the bloody footprints of resident gawkers.

At the conference her boss showed off his knowledge of wines.

In the summer of 1963 I went to Philadelphia to study with a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

The year begins well here with much needed rain and tee-shirt temperatures.

Frank kept looking over at Michiko’s loft.

Rome and Carthage wage war as Hannibal crosses the Alps and invades Italy. With him, he brings an army of barbarian hordes hellbent on reducing Rome to ash. For one young Roman soldier, Gaius, he is trapped between his loyalties to the republic, and to hi

I almost caught a poet today.

The man could be a total brute, though the truth was he had the softest of hearts too. A real gentle giant. But get him going on a drunk jag with too much ouzo in his system, and look out.

His shirts he hangs on the back of the chair, one on top the other so they won't wrinkle.

Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

I'm an older guy. She is still quite young. I tell her I may be too old but she giggles and tells me that she did the research and it said because there is snow on the roof doesn't mean no fire's in the stove. She proved it. Things like this. We excite ourselves,…

Mon wakes up surrounded by trees. The light is grey, the trunks black.How long have I slept? he wonders.He doesn't know which way to walk. In every direction, the same prospect of trees. He looks up at a blank sky. No sign even of the sun.***He starts walking. Slowly,…

You need only one who notices.

Conjure calamity and calamity comes.