Out There
I was putting myself out there. On my return to San Francisco from a bleak Thanksgiving with my...
Tag: love
Flesh
He sleeps with Thomas’s nanny. She’s Canadian, about twenty-five, and also lives in the house, in...
We
Through the glass walls of the buildings, a windy, feverishly pink, disturbing sunset. I’ve turned...
Courting The Wild Twin
Stop Saying That the Earth Is Doomed You may be doomed, I may be doomed, the earth not so much....
All Fours
Her mood was a little off when I arrived. Or, not off (who was I to judge?), just unfamiliar. She took a long time hanging up my coat. “Are you okay?” But she didn’t do well with direct questions like that. As per our ritual we...
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos
What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where...
All Fours
“Are all the rooms here this nice?” Cassie, fifty-three, only had a second while her daughter was...
Dream Count
I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years...
Feelings
There must be a wound!No one can be this hurtand not bleed. How could she injure me so?No marksNo...
Orbital
Today is his four hundredth and thirty-fourth day in space, a tally arrived at over three...
The Sea
Claire was waiting by the car, shoulders hunched, using the sleeves of her coat for a muff. ‘You...
The Asra
Every day so lovely, shining,up and down, the Sultan’s daughterwalked at evening by the...
