1994 0 0
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A behind the scenes look at the character designs of the Arcana Magi Universe.
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1994 6 1
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I am coming to understand how many memories of my father involve him, driving
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1993 2 1
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If the photographs made sounds, they would rumble like static from an impending thunderstorm, pressed between the pages of a yellowing dictionary. Compressed sound, searching for the proper words.
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1993 23 18
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Five girls wobble into the train car. Their blistered feet protrude from the bedazzled straps of their sandals. Conductor: “Girls in the back with the open containers, you can't have those on the train.” A heavy-set girl in a belted yellow mini-dress…
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1993 19 9
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that day is my barking up and leaves falling down story, but in their elephant slowness it seemed no more than the regular run of the sun slightly disappearing here, and then maybe reappearing there, like a lost color, way over the horizon, or the…
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1992 7 3
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Ancient erections loom aloft
ringed by decades
centuries for some
in gnarled scabs of pine.
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1992 2 1
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The barista with the fake rainbow nails and amazing cleft. . . .
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1992 14 9
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for the rush of longing
and brush with flight
that is her imagination
will surely lift her above the traffic
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1992 17 15
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Sometimes he made us punch pillows. "Harder!" the shrink would yell.
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1992 1 1
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I read the runes, the cards, the signs, the sticks. I consulted tarot cards and read tea leaves. I listened to you, deconstructed every word and look and tone with the harshest logic and cynicism I could muster. If there was some way to decipher what you
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1992 13 8
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Heaven’s a blast! It’s like a big summer camp in space...We are the weavers of the tie-dyed sky.
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1992 0 0
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They tell me I’m crazy. I say I’m just keeping up.
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1991 2 1
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This stage of Junior’s young life was static, moving very little off-center since his graduation from high school five years ago. Treading water both professionally and emotionally never worried him. Not until after what transpired that night when Pr
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1991 2 3
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In reenactments of the pressing to death of Giles Corey, Walter’s friends stacked pillows onto his chest while he defied his inquisitors.
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1991 5 3
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You’ve gathered in church to wait for Jesus. Unarguable signs have let you know this is the day. This is the day of the second coming. This is Judgment Day.
It was a no-brainer to wait at the church.
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1991 0 0
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Emi was cheerful and nice towards her classmates. It was like she saw a different person last night. Emi’s pupil-less red eyes frightened her, and the spell that she cast on her, that bump on the head still lingered.
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1990 3 2
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But Jana insisted to see this miracle, this antidote for the mundanity of existence.
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1990 0 0
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She did not know what it would feel like, how it would happen … but she knew it would be done. She knew that it would be magical, like nothing she could see or hear through the cornfields or around the markets.
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1990 11 9
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oh, sure i’m still running around like a heads-up/off/prophet/profit/fit trying to cut off my very own de/(con)instruction and all other sordid a•void•able & available /a-Babel-Trumpish towers of post & toastmodern doom/daze/haze
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1989 15 5
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I work in finance. Yes, I have money. Yes, my apartment building has a doorman.
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1989 25 15
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I came from the only flat region in the kingdom of mountains and fjords, and called the city “Down in the Dumps”. The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.
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1989 19 8
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It lies in rusting riot
of shadowed days.
Flying high its emblem wings,
forever stalled.
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1989 3 2
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Knowing this is too long for here I won't be crushed or enraged if no one has the time to read it. Also, it's not fiction.
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1988 6 2
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It’s two o’clock in the morning, and I’m lying in bed, wide awake, drenched in sweat. I know what I need–a Thin Mint cookie–but I don’t know where I’m gonna find one.
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1988 14 15
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A crone dressed in black pours liquid from a bottle onto the egg. Whiskey. Gasp! The egg cooks before our eyes!
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1988 5 1
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Snow was falling. People passed by the window and wore large coats. Inside, Alex stood in front of the window and watched.
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1988 2 1
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At work I recommended someone go to the Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta. I told you about recommending it to someone.
“I always wanted to go back there,” I said.
“You did? You never told me,” you said.
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1987 1 1
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I ran into Geary Marston in front of the French Hotel Café, across the street from Chez Panisse. I was sitting outside at a small round metal table. A girl that looked like a Degas model was selling flowers on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. Her shor
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1987 1 0
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“People are staring at us,” Cat said softly into Marcel’s ear.
“We look like an interesting couple,” Marcel replied. “Of course people want to look at us.”
Cat nibbled on that thought for a while.
New York City is the kind of place where people ra
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1987 17 14
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Unfinished, deeply flawed stories require the kind of handling you see in movies where a Virus That Will Doom Mankind is disposed of by scientists in hazmat suits.
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