Hens all lay. Until they’re old. A six-pack, a dozen, the pricey browns and greens and blues. Did […]
Category Archive: Stories
I’ve been working on a short story recently in which a married couple with a young son invite […]
Every late autumn, early winter, I get to thinking about Canadian musician Mac DeMarco. His woozy, chiming, angular, […]
Sheltered behind a dune in November 1856, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville raised their voices above the wind. […]
When I was young, the threat of violence connected like a punch to the gut before any actual […]
Recognition: the known way the sky opens as you drive up and over the level crossing, that awkward […]
The boy stood at the fence line watching Valdez stack wood. The ranch hand was burning the horse. […]
His wife died unexpectedly. She dropped dead in the shower. He found her. She hardly drank, never smoked, […]
In leafy, liberal Providence – capital of Rhode Island, America’s smallest state – the talk at dinner is […]
Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy Lucy, we wrote, on the squares in our maths books, […]