My entire body is numb when I wake. I stay sprawled on my back as feeling slowly crawls down my neck and tingles up my arms until I’m able to…
We smoke for the first time together in her attic apartment, the ceiling unfinished, hidden by tapestries that meet at a point in the center…
The bar is small, dark, and trite, nestled in a strip mall between a prosperous and garish Korean nail salon and the upscale…
I have lost a great many things, including the manse that sits behind me, nestled along the riverbank. The cold water tickles my toes…
Carl points his gnarly, yellow-nailed finger (cigarettes) at the graffiti and says:
People used to tell me I was a good writer. I worked on some flashy accounts in my 30s. But being able to write isn’t much use to a…
It is March, and the salt-bleached sidewalks pull me in a familiar direction. I know this road well. I have walked it often in preparation for…
CeCe’s nude heels clacked against the concrete sidewalk as she tugged on her black silk dress. It was the only funeral attire she owned, and…
Trees grew at the mountain’s snow-covered base, left undisturbed by a less primitive race of people…