Let’s Kill Lieutenant Chan

Everything she said could have, should have, bothered him, if he were normal. But it didn’t because he wasn’t normal at … More

A Last Wave

Feel sorry for her? That’s a good way to ruin a teenager’s weekend.This is not the way, say, for an … More

He thought about how a bullet travels at 1700 miles per hour, so if you see it, it’s only for … More

“Ay, it’s the cost of everything these days that drives me crazy. Nowadays I’m only rolling my own.” Chris could … More

Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on … More

“Where’d he come from?” asked Stillman, bending down to see what if any damage had been done when he dropped … More

Our father says the sound is loud enough to wake the dead. The music is alive tonight in infinite weathered … More

The blade was so sharp, Wang was tempted to run it against his thumb. Blood fascinated him. Even his own. … More

To be in peak health and die in your sleep, unaware of a painless passing, this is the way I … More

It was madness to treat you like some character locked in a box, for all I knew, you suffering too … More

“I don’t see it that way,” you say, and I begin the wonder why.We sit cross legged on the floor … More

When is a beer not a celebratory beer? This is not a riddle. Every beer I drink with relatives and … More

Like the intricate webs they conceive in waking life,spiders minds may spin cognitively complex dreams.If a spider does dream, of … More

We sit on the runway at O’Hare awaiting takeoff, Madison our destination. I always try to break the ice with … More

Bespoke? Where are you, Bespoke? I see you there, Bespoke.For me personally, sorry to see you go, but custom says … More

A vision, they pop up ahead of us on the horizon,these sheets of red flowers blowing, rippling waves,like huge blood … More

It read, “The dead know nothing the living won’t find out sooner or later.”And you sure don’t envy them, she … More

A revered professor. From our days of college pressures and living free, before the world you know tries its level … More