The New Accelerator
So it was I had my first experience of the New Accelerator. Practically we had been running about...
Category: Lies
Creation Lake
As little Franck talks about why he thinks adults are afraid of children’s sexuality, someone in...
Dream State
The house was cramped and musty and low ceilinged. There was beige carpet from the seventies,...
Creation Lake
Neantderthals were prone to depression, he said. He said they were prone to addiction, too, and...
Damned If I Do
Randall Randall “I only want one egg this morning,” Randall said. “Bacon or...
Orbital
In the cosmic calendar of the universe and life, with the Big Bang happening on January 1st,...
Albert Angelo
The tablemanners are appalling by Mr. Coulter’s standards. You notice him correcting one...
The Heart In Winter
On Wyoming Street in the evening a patent Irish stumbled by, some crazy old meathead in a motley...
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...
James
Never had a situation felt so absurd, surreal and ridiculous. And I had spent my life as a slave....
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...
