Looking As If She Were Alive (for Robert Browning)

The last meaning what? This guy.I’ve read enough stories, seen enough movies and TV showsto know that there’s always the … More

An Unsuitable Way for You To End It With Me

I’ve been dumped many times, and one thing I’ll sayis that every time it happens it’s so awfully cliché.I hate … More

In the end, unwound and desperate, the cold head of the match gone dead, you are being drowned in darkness. … More

Our group, struck by the sight of a medusa tree riding astride its monstrous barrow mounded base, myriad tentacle fingers … More

Steel, maybe, lots of steel. Perhaps concrete by the boat-loads. Wood, really, I would rather not use. Impermanence has proved … More

David Chan sat at the dining room table cleaning his service revolver. He always cleaned his personal one first, although … More

When Chan arrived at the station, Yamamoto was already at his desk. “Anything?” asked Chan. “Yeah. Wow. You don’t look like you … More

My father sold insurance, and many of his clients lived in the roughest parts of town.He kept under the driver’s … More

I jolt awake in the dark.Well, it would be dark except my computer,as have I, has come out of sleep … More

I’m sleeping, I think; this has the vivid feeling of a dream.Before my house was rebuilt, a huge mango tree … More

I’m watering the yard, and out of the corner of my eye, I noticea branch of the plumeria tree bend; … More

I was born in a land of English speakers,where parents believed speaking Englishwas the key to success. My father was … More

At that insightful moment in this wall-building exercise,I flashed upon those muscles allowing me to pick upthe next stone, that … More

A friend, a school band director, professional drummer, jazz fanatic, and high-end audiophile,reports he’s just back from a west coast … More

I can’t hear youYou say when you choose not to acknowledgeWhat someone has saidYou lie Over Zoom, FacetimeFake a bad … More

It’s a sight I used to anticipate several times a year. The area on the Big Island of Hawai‘i known … More

1. Death Wish Rendered unconscious by a fall in the bathtub, a president of Russia drowned. * * * 2. … More

From the time he began college, he kept every single book he bought for every course he took. His library … More

What does it really mean to arrive fashionably late?What, you’re too busy with your important life to show up on … More

You know your romance has gone awry when toys fail. I’m not talking about batteries. I mean when suggest a … More