I dared her to eat the whole strawberry — green part and all — just to see if she would do it. Piper was like that…
Mother always said I was destined to be married. I wish she could be here to meet you, I know she would have approved. A proper…
“Damn dark glass. I was convinced these were at least half full.” Tom sighed and replaced the bottles carefully in his…
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…
On a backcountry road, the hills make my stomach go up and down, and realize that’s how my life’s been for the past…
I never want to die alone, but it seems that’s my fate.
The day after he crashed his car through the guardrail of Route 1, rolled twice, and came to a stop against Fairfax County’s oldest…
The rising sun, a red ball set in a hard grey sky, painted the tips of the ocean waves all the way to the water’s edge. Everything…
When my mother died, she became my God. Whenever I prayed before, it was always to something or someone I couldn’t quite grasp. Sure…
Junum the Young was the last of the Cloud People. All the others from his tribe had disappeared one by one, wandering off into the…