The sun shines on the clearing at midday. My sisters and I have been up since dawn gathering flowers and shapely twigs, oddly-patterned leaves, feathers, beetle shells, bits of gristle.…
She first saw the dog with no eyes when she was walking around the block crying. She was crying not because she looked like the bad witch in the marchen,…
Jolie biked faster than Claire could skate so she held to the hem of Jolie’s rosy dress, fanning out like a parachute, while they circled the Eiffel Tower. “Faster,” Claire…
The coat never made much sense in California. It was double-breasted, with the two rows of buttons, padded in the chest and shoulders, and it sort of had tails, a…
I remember the time when everyone had to wear red shirts. It was a forced fashion, to be sure. Heavy. Enslaving. Enchanting. I remember watching the queen throw shirts on…
On Monday, I will wake at eight o’clock, brush my teeth, make chocolate chip pancakes from scratch. I will put the dishes in the dishwasher without rinsing them, and they…
There are trees, certainly. Great, tall, pale trees like the leg bones of long-dead giants that once walked the earth. Femurs left standing with no body to carry. And there…
It was never his idea to go to the wood. It was never his idea to do anything. He was at the back of the pack; he knew where he…
On Herkimer Street in Buffalo in 1974, elementary schoolgirls plod in plastic boots lined with bread bags. The blondes wear white coats with red, poppy patterns. The brown-haired girls wear…
As soon as the applause fades, Guillermo takes a seat center stage in front of the Tower Theater audience in downtown Fresno; he is doing a Q&A with a local…
