Sounds of the Night Watch: A Cry In the Dark
Last night I woke suddenly, as if ejected from sleep. I couldn’t see the clock over the vague hump of your blanketed shoulder, but it was the deepest ditch of […]
Finally, Romantic Justice For Little Women’s Jo
Jo belonged with Laurie – we all know it. The Little Women ending that should have been.
Lovely, Dark and Deep: A Path Through Childhood
This is me, walking on the path that I used to walk to grade school every day – a small Catholic school in a small town in southern Illinois. The […]
Back to Wonderland
She gets up to go to the bathroom, shuffling her way across the dark bedroom because she doesn’t want to stumble on shoes or toys. The dark has an almost […]
Crazy Like a Fox
(or, Thank You For the Ride!) The Fox moved silently along the wooded path. She was not being chased, which was the very definition of a good day for the […]
The Cosmic Glitch
Sometimes, in the minutes before love when we are smiling and talking, our bodies alive to one another and thrumming with anticipation, I expect it, finally, to happen. They will enter the room, […]
Electricity
I gave the eulogy at my mother’s funeral. I did not see Lightning Jim right away, though there were only about a dozen or so old folks in the pews […]
Peacetime
Since the war, he does not go to the baths. He cannot bear to be near other men, naked toads squatting in drifting steam. He does not like to see […]
Watch your brother
Watch your brother, watch your brother, the girl thought to herself. Wondering why they always said to watch him when he never did anything worth looking at. He just sat […]
Writing Down The Bones: My Tale of Anorexia and Redemption
It started when I was a thirteen year old high school freshman. I remember the exact day, in fact. I was in health class, taught by Mr. Carr, who was […]
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