The Buffalo
But it was spring. Even the lion licked the lioness’s smooth forehead. Both animals blond. The...
Category: Short Stories
Break It Down
And once she lay over against me late in the night and she started talking, her breath in my ear,...
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross...
Homesick for Another World
A Dark and Winding RoadAround nine o’clock, I pulled my sleeping bag out and unrolled it on the...
Attrib. And Other Stories
Concision A single Finnish word can describe the blast of heat that occurs when water is poured on...
Delta of Venus
Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit,...
The Second Bakery Attack
I’m still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But...
The One Who Waits
I live in a well. I live like smoke in the well. Like vapor in a stone throat. I don’t move. I...
In A German Pension
Frau Brechenmacher Attends A Wedding“Fancy Theresa bringing that child with her. It’s her...
Florida
Ghosts and EmptiesI have somehow become a woman who yells, and, because I do not want to be a...
The Doer Of Good
It was night-time and He was alone. And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards...
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Silences After dinner, nobody went home right away. I think we’d enjoyed the meal so much we hoped...
